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Word and Radical Components of 铅笔

The Chinese word 铅笔 is analysed below into its constituent words and the words into radicals. By seeing the breakdown of the word in this way you can more easily learn and recognise the word.


Component Pinyin Meanings
铅笔 1. Simplified form of 鉛筆

铅笔 ⇨ 铅 + 笔
Component Pinyin Meanings
1. Simplified form of 鉛
1. Variant of 筆

铅 ⇨ 钅 + 㕣
Component Pinyin Meanings
1. gold
2. Simplified form of 釒
yǎn 1. (zh-hg) marsh at the foot of the hills
2. (zh-hg) Alternative form of 沇

笔 ⇨ ⺮ + 毛
Component Pinyin Meanings
zhú 1. (zh-div, 亞科) bamboo
     竹子zi - bamboo
2. (musical instrument) musical instrument made of bamboo
     Zhu
máo, Máo 1. hair (of humans or animals); fur; feather
     雞毛 - chicken feather
2. (dialectal) hair on the head
3. mildew; mold
4. (colloquial) jiao; one tenth of a yuan or dollar; ten cents; dime
      - a jiao / ten cents
      - three yuan and two jiao / three dollars and twenty cents
     五毛黨 - wumao
5. coarse; raw; semifinished
     毛茶 - raw tea
6. (of an amount) gross
     (ant, zh, )
     毛利 - gross profit
     毛重 - gross weight
7. rough; sketchy
     毛估 - to make a rough estimate
8. small; little
     毛毛雨 - drizzle
     毛孩子zi - mere child
9. careless; unthinking
     毛手毛腳 - to be careless
10. panicked; scared; nervous
      - to have scared me
11. angry; furious
12. (of currency) depreciated
13. (mainland, colloquial or slang) no; nothing; damn all; my ass
      - be not effective or useful, to be of damn-all use
      - be not effective or useful, to be of damn-all use
14. (Cantonese, colloquial, always with the classifier) nothing; damn all; jack shit; bugger all
     (syn, zh, )
      ? - Do you know anything at all?
15. (ACG) hair (in unnatural colours)
      - the character with white-coloured hair
     假毛 - wig
      - - Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-tung), founder of the People's Republic of China
16. usage. In Standard Chinese, for hair on the human head, use 頭髮 instead.

㕣 ⇨ 八 + 口
Component Pinyin Meanings
1. eight
2. many; numerous
3. (printing) pearl (q, the smallest size of usual type, standardized as 5 point)
4. (zh-abbrev, 八卦)
5.    to gossip (about); to stick one's nose in
6.    (Cantonese) nosey; meddling
7.   八婆 - nosey parker; meddling woman
     Ba
8. Variant of 捌
kǒu 1. (anatomy) mouth, especially the lips and internal mouth cavity
      。 (Shù shù nǐ de kǒu.) - Rinse your mouth out.
      出自 聽來 令人 奇怪。 (Zhè huà chūzì nǐ de kǒu, tīnglái lìngrén qíguài.) - This sounds strange in your mouth.
2. entrance; opening; mouth (of an object)
     入口 (rùkǒu) - entrance
     出口 (chūkǒu) - exit
     門口 (ménkǒu) - doorway
3. gateway
     張家口 (Zhāngjiākǒu) - Zhangjiakou
     口北 (Kǒuběi) - the area beyond the Great Wall
     口蘑 (kǒumó) - St. George's mushroom (Calocybe gambosa)
4. hole; cut
     口子zi (kǒuzi) - hole
     傷口 (shāngkǒu) - wound
5. port
     電腦 端口 (shāngkǒu) - computer port
     Csēi (sēikǒu) - USB-C port
6. perimeter
     人口 (rénkǒu) - population
     戶口 (hùkǒu) - hukou
7. government organ; department
      (sān kǒu zhī jiā) - a family of three
      可以 ? (Wǒ kěyǐ chī yī kǒu ma?) - Can I have a bite?
8. (neologism, slang) to fellate
9. Variant of 名