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镭

léi

Character Traditional 鐳

What 镭 means

1. radium (chemistry)

Example sentences

• 谁发现了镭?
  Shéi fāxiàn le léi?
  Who discovered radium?
• 镭是谁发现的？
  Léi shì shéi fāxiàn de?
  Who was radium discovered by?
• 镭是居里夫人所发现的。
  Léi shì Jūlǐ Fūren suǒ fāxiàn de.
  It was Marie Curie who discovered radium.

Words starting with 镭

• 镭射léi shèlaser (loanword); Taiwanese term for 激光
• 镭射印表机léi shè yìn biǎo jīlaser printer

Characters built on 雷

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

• 蕾lěibud
• 擂léito pound (with a mortar and pestle); to hit (a person); to beat (a drum)…

Characters that look like 镭

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

• 糟zāodregs; draff; pickled in wine
• 镯zhuóbracelet
• 镰lián(bound form) sickle
• 龌wòdirty; small-minded
• 镫dèngstirrup
• 镧lánlanthanum (chemistry)

Sounds the same

Read léi, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 雷thunder; (bound form; military) mine, as in 地雷; (colloquial) to shock; to stun; to astound
• 擂to pound (with a mortar and pestle); to hit (a person); to beat (a drum)…
• 累rope; to bind together; to twist around
• 羸entangled; lean
• 罍large earthenware wine jar
• 缧(literary) thick rope used to restrain a prisoner
• 攂to beat (old variant of 擂
• 樏(archaic) simple sedan chair for traveling in the mountains…
• 檑logs rolled down in defense of city
• 欙sedan
• 畾fields divided by dikes
• 礌used in 礌石; Taiwan pr. lèi