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镏金

liú jīn

2-character word Traditional 鎦金

What 镏金 means

1. gold-plating
2. gilded
3. gold-plated

The characters in 镏金

• 镏liú(Taiwan; chemistry) lutetium
• 金jīngold; chemical element Au; generic term for lustrous and ductile metals

Sounds the same

Read liú jīn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 鎏金variant of 镏金

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