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铅 (qiān): meaning and stroke order

铅 (qiān) means lead (chemistry), old variant of 铅, used in 铅山, a county in Jiangxi.

铅

Simplified
铅
Traditional
鉛, 鈆
Pinyin
qiān · yán

Stroke order of 铅

铅

  • qiān old variant of 鉛|铅[qian1]
  • qiān lead (chemistry)
  • yán used in 鉛山|铅山[Yan2 shan1], a county in Jiangxi
  • 10 strokes
  • Traditional form: 鈆

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 铅

  1. qiān Traditional 鉛
    • lead (chemistry)
  2. qiān Traditional 鈆
    • old variant of 鉛|铅[qian1]
  3. yán Traditional 鉛
    • used in 鉛山|铅山[Yan2 shan1], a county in Jiangxi

Radical and structure

铅
Radical 钅 (Kangxi radical 167) in its simplified form · 10 strokes

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

铅 in our stories

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  • 可是到了三十公里，她的腿突然变得像灌了铅一样沉，小腿开始抽筋。跑友们管这叫“撞墙”。

    kěshì dào le sānshí gōnglǐ tā de tuǐ tūrán biànde xiàng guàn le qiān yíyàng chén xiǎotuǐ kāishǐ chōujīn pǎoyǒu men guǎn zhè jiào zhuàngqiáng

    But at thirty kilometres her legs suddenly felt as heavy as lead and her calves began to cramp. Runners call this "hitting the wall".

    From the story The four-hour balloon HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 铅

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).