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.

• 银yín🔊

  silver

  HSK 3

  11 strokes

• 钓diào🔊

  to fish with a hook and line; to angle

  11 strokes

• 铐kào🔊

  shackles

  11 strokes

• 铬gè🔊

  chromium (chemistry)

  11 strokes

• 铲chǎn🔊

  variant of 剷|铲[chan3]

  HSK 7

  11 strokes

• 铜tóng🔊

  copper (chemistry)

  HSK 7

  11 strokes

• 铝lǚ🔊

  aluminum (chemistry)

  HSK 7

  11 strokes

• 钐shān🔊

  samarium (chemistry)

  11 strokes

• 钏chuàn🔊

  armlet

  11 strokes

• 钒fán🔊

  vanadium (chemistry)

  11 strokes

• 𨰿xì🔊

  (arch.) metal horn attached as shield to horse or to the axle of a chariot

  11 strokes

• 钗chāi🔊

  hairpin

  11 strokes

• 钍tǔ🔊

  thorium (chemistry)

  11 strokes

• 釸xī🔊

  variant of 矽[xi1]

  11 strokes

• 钕nǚ🔊

  neodymium (chemistry)

  11 strokes

• 钎qiān🔊

  a drill (for boring through rock)

  11 strokes

• 钑sà🔊

  (literary) small halberd with an iron handle, used as a weapon or agricultural tool

  11 strokes

• 铏xíng🔊

  soup cauldron

  11 strokes

• 铑lǎo🔊

  rhodium (chemistry)

  11 strokes

• 铒ěr🔊

  erbium (chemistry)

  11 strokes

• 铓máng🔊

  sharp point

  11 strokes

• 铔yà🔊

  ammonium (old)

  11 strokes

• 铕yǒu🔊

  europium (chemistry)

  11 strokes

• 铖chéng🔊

  (used in people's names)

  11 strokes

• 铗jiá🔊

  pincers for use at a fire

  11 strokes

• 铘yé🔊

  used in 鏌鋣|镆铘[Mo4 ye2]

  11 strokes

• 铙náo🔊

  big cymbals

  11 strokes

• 铚zhì🔊

  sickle

  11 strokes

• 铛dāng🔊

  clank

  11 strokes

• 铞diào🔊

  see 釕銱兒|钌铞儿[liao4 diao4 r5]

  11 strokes

• 铟yīn🔊

  indium (chemistry)

  11 strokes

• 铠kǎi🔊

  armor

  11 strokes

• 铡zhá🔊

  lever-style guillotine

  11 strokes

• 铢zhū🔊

  twenty-fourth part of a tael (2 or 3 grams)

  11 strokes

• 铣xǐ🔊

  to mill (machining)

  11 strokes

• 铤tǐng🔊

  big arrow

  11 strokes

• 铥diū🔊

  thulium (chemistry)

  11 strokes

• 铦xiān🔊

  fish-spear

  11 strokes

• 铧huá🔊

  plowshare

  11 strokes

• 铨quán🔊

  to estimate

  11 strokes

• 铩shā🔊

  (old) spear; lance

  11 strokes

• 铪hā🔊

  hafnium (chemistry)

  11 strokes

• 铫diào🔊

  pan with a long handle

  11 strokes

• 铭míng🔊

  to engrave

  11 strokes

• 铮zhēng🔊

  clang of metals

  11 strokes

• 铯sè🔊

  cesium (chemistry)

  11 strokes

• 铰jiǎo🔊

  scissors

  11 strokes

• 铱yī🔊

  iridium (chemistry)

  11 strokes