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镁

měi

Character Traditional 鎂

What 镁 means

1. magnesium (chemistry)

Words starting with 镁

• 镁光měi guāngmagnesium light (produced by burning magnesium)
• 镁棒měi bàngferrocerium rod; fire steel
• 镁砂měi shāmagnesium oxide (refractory material)
• 镁砖měi zhuānmagnesium brick (refractory material)
• 镁粉měi fěnmagnesium powder (used in pyrotechnics etc); (sports) gym chalk (magnesium carbonate)…
• 镁盐měi yánmagnesium salt
• 镁光灯měi guāng dēngmagnesium flashbulb; (fig.) media spotlight; public attention

Words containing 镁

• 氧化镁yǎng huà měimagnesium oxide MgO
• 硫酸镁liú suān měimagnesium sulfate
• 菱镁矿líng měi kuàngmagnesite; magnesium ore
• 铁镁质tiě měi zhìmafic rock (containing magnesium and iron, so comparatively heavy, making oceanic plates)
• 氢氧化镁qīng yǎng huà měimagnesium hydroxide Mg(OH)2
• 桂纶镁Guì Lún měiGuey Lun-mei (1983-), Taiwanese actress
• 矽镁层xī měi céngsima (geology); silicon and magnesium layer in earth's crust

Characters that look like 镁

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

• 锡xītin (chemistry); to bestow; to confer
• 镀dùto plate (with gold, silver etc); (prefix) -plated
• 镍niènickel (chemistry)
• 辘lùused in 辘辘; used in 轱辘; used in 辘轳
• 镌juānto engrave (on wood or stone); to inscribe
• 镊niè(bound form) tweezers; to use tweezers…

Sounds the same

Read měi, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 每each; every
• 美beautiful; very satisfactory; good; to beautify
• 浼to ask a favor of
• 渼ripple pattern
• 媺beautiful
• 嵄mountain; hill
• 媄beautiful