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镀

dù

Character Traditional 鍍

What 镀 means

1. to plate (with gold, silver etc)
2. (prefix) -plated

Example sentences

• 当我们其他人辛苦工作时，强盗贵族却用镀金餐具吃饭。
  While the rest of us toil, the robber barons eat from gilt tableware.

Words starting with 镀

• 镀金dù jīnto gold-plate; to gild; (fig.) to make sth quite ordinary seem special
• 镀上dù shàngto plate (with gold, silver etc)
• 镀层dù céngthe coating of sth that has been chrome-plated or copper-plated etc
• 镀银dù yínsilver-plated
• 镀锌dù xīngalvanized; zinc-coated

Words containing 镀

• 电镀diàn dùto electroplate

Characters that look like 镀

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 慑shè(bound form) to fear; to be cowed; (bound form) to frighten; to intimidate; Taiwan pr. zhé
• 镁měimagnesium (chemistry)
• 辘lùused in 辘辘; used in 轱辘; used in 辘轳
• 槿jǐnHibiscus syriacus; transient
• 镌juānto engrave (on wood or stone); to inscribe
• 锺zhōngnonstandard simplified variant of 钟

Sounds the same

Read dù, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 度to pass; to spend (time); measure
• 肚belly
• 渡to cross; to pass through; to ferry
• 杜birchleaf pear (tree); to stop; to prevent
• 妒to envy (success, talent); jealous
• 蠹insect that eats into books, clothing etc; moth-eaten; worm-eaten
• 喥used in location words (Cantonese); Mandarin equivalent: 里
• 芏used in 茳芏; Taiwan pr. tǔ
• 𬭊dubnium (chemistry)
• 螙variant of 蠹
• 蠧variant of 蠹