tài

titanium

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
釒 meaning component

  Meaning component

jīn

  

metal

is a component form of .

太 sound component

  Sound component

tài

  

very

Evolution

鈦 Bronze script Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)
鈦 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
鈦 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
鈦 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
鈦 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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tài

titanium; titanium (chemistry)

Most common words with 鈦
Freq.
Word
Meaning

titanium (chemistry)

二氧化钛

titanium dioxide

钛铁矿

ilmenite FeTiO3

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4310th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Simplified

Unicode

U+9226

Shuowen

“釱,鐵鉗也。从金,大聲。”


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