noun #90,857

Meanings

  1. 1 neodymium (chemical element Nd)

Examples

Nǚ cítiě shì mùqián chángyòng de zuìqiáng yǒngcí cáiliào.
Neodymium magnets are the strongest permanent magnets in common use.

Tips

usage
Almost always in compounds, especially 钕磁铁 (neodymium magnet). Like most metal-element characters it is a modern coinage: metal radical plus a phonetic chosen for sound.

Components

radical
jīn
metal
The metal radical is the left-side form of ; every metallic element is written with it, marking as a metal.
phonetic
woman; here phonetic
The right side is purely phonetic, chosen to approximate the 'neo-' sound of neodymium with no woman meaning.

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