metal

Origin & mnemonic

This radical originates from a pictograph representing a storehouse or repository of precious metals, depicted as coins or ingots sheltered under a roof. In oracle-bone and seal script, it symbolizes valued metal objects kept safe or stored.

Mnemonic: Three horizontal strokes in a box recall three precious metal coins sheltered and protected under a roof.

• 镊niè🔊

  (bound form) tweezers

  15 strokes

• 镋tǎng🔊

  ancient weapon resembling a pitchfork

  15 strokes

• 镌juān🔊

  to engrave (on wood or stone)

  15 strokes

• 镎ná🔊

  neptunium (chemistry)

  15 strokes

• 镏liú🔊

  (Tw) (chemistry) lutetium

  15 strokes

• 镐gǎo🔊

  a pick

  15 strokes

• 镒yì🔊

  ancient unit of weight equal to 20 or 24 liang 兩|两[liang3]

  15 strokes

• 镓jiā🔊

  gallium (chemistry)

  15 strokes

• 镔bīn🔊

  fine steel

  15 strokes

• 镕róng🔊

  to smelt

  15 strokes

• 鿔gē🔊

  copernicium (chemistry)

  15 strokes

• 𨱍láng🔊

  large hammer

  15 strokes

• 𨱏tǎ🔊

  technetium (chemistry) (Tw)

  15 strokes

• 𬭩wēng🔊

  shovel

  15 strokes

• 表biǎo🔊

  watch (timepiece)

  HSK 2

  16 strokes

• 录lù🔊

  diary

  HSK 3

  16 strokes

• 镜jìng🔊

  mirror

  16 strokes

• 镖biāo🔊

  dart-like throwing weapon

  16 strokes

• 鋺wǎn🔊

  variant of 碗[wan3]

  16 strokes

• 錴lù🔊

  rhodium (chemistry) (old)

  16 strokes

• 錼nài🔊

  neptunium (chemistry) (Tw)

  16 strokes

• 錾zàn🔊

  to engrave

  16 strokes

• 鍅fǎ🔊

  francium (chemistry) (Tw)

  16 strokes

• 镗tāng🔊

  noise of drums

  16 strokes

• 镘màn🔊

  side of coin without words

  16 strokes

• 镚bèng🔊

  small coin

  16 strokes

• 镛yōng🔊

  large bell

  16 strokes

• 镝dī🔊

  dysprosium (chemistry)

  16 strokes

• 镞zú🔊

  arrowhead

  16 strokes

• 镟xuàn🔊

  to shape on a lathe

  16 strokes

• 镠liú🔊

  fine gold

  16 strokes

• 鍪móu🔊

  (archaic) iron pot

  17 strokes

• 鍹xuān🔊

  spade

  17 strokes

• 镡Tán🔊

  surname Tan

  17 strokes

• 镢jué🔊

  (dialect) (bound form) mattock; hoe

  17 strokes

• 镣liào🔊

  fetters

  17 strokes

• 镤pú🔊

  protactinium (chemistry)

  17 strokes

• 镥lǔ🔊

  lutetium (chemistry)

  17 strokes

• 镦dūn🔊

  upsetting (forged pieces)

  17 strokes

• 镧lán🔊

  lanthanum (chemistry)

  17 strokes

• 镨pǔ🔊

  praseodymium (chemistry)

  17 strokes

• 镩cuān🔊

  ice spud (aka ice chisel) with a pointy tip

  17 strokes

• 镪qiāng🔊

  sulfuric acid

  17 strokes

• 镫dèng🔊

  stirrup

  17 strokes

• 𨱑héng🔊

  bell

  17 strokes

• 𨱔zūn🔊

  butt end of spear

  17 strokes

• 𫔍fán🔊

  vanadium

  17 strokes

• 𬭳xǐ🔊

  seaborgium (chemistry)

  17 strokes