noun

Meanings

  1. 1 a tin-lead alloy used for soldering metalware (solder)

Examples

Xījiàng yòng yìdiǎn là bǔ hǎo le shuǐhú.
The tinsmith mended the kettle with a dab of solder.
Zhè zhǒng xī qiān héjīn yě jiào xī là.
This alloy of tin and lead is also called solder.

Tips

register
Rare technical character, written only in its traditional gate form. It names a tin-lead soldering alloy, also called 焊閖 or 锡閖. Modern writing nearly always uses 焊锡 ('solder') instead.

Components

semantic
mén
gate
The outer is the full traditional gate graph used as an enclosing frame; this character is not simplified and is written only this way.
semantic
shuǐ
water
Inside the gate sits ('water'), here suggesting the molten, flowing nature of the soldering metal when heated.

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