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镓

jiā

Character Traditional 鎵

What 镓 means

1. gallium (chemistry)

Words containing 镓

• 氮化镓dàn huà jiāgallium nitride (GaN)
• 砷化镓shēn huà jiāgallium arsenide (GaAs)

Characters built on 家

These share the phonetic component 家 (jiā), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 嫁jià(of a woman) to marry; to marry off a daughter; to shift (blame etc)
• 稼jiàto sow grain; (farm) crop

Characters that look like 镓

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

• 镇zhènto press down; to calm; to subdue
• 镖biāodart-like throwing weapon; goods sent under the protection of an armed escort
• 镁měimagnesium (chemistry)
• 辘lùused in 辘辘; used in 轱辘; used in 辘轳
• 镌juānto engrave (on wood or stone); to inscribe
• 锺zhōngnonstandard simplified variant of 钟

Sounds the same

Read jiā, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 家used in 家伙
• 加to add; (math) plus; to increase; to augment
• 夹to press from either side; to place in between; to sandwich
• 嘉excellent; auspicious; to praise
• 佳beautiful; fine; good
• 迦(phonetic sound for Buddhist terms)
• 伽traditionally used as phonetic for "ga"
• 枷cangue (wooden collar like stocks used to restrain and punish criminals in China)
• 珈gamma; jewelry
• 茄phonetic character used in loanwords for the sound "jia", although 夹
• 痂scab
• 耞flail (for threshing grain); old variant of 枷