The kanji 鉛: meaning, readings and stroke order
鉛
- Meaning
- lead
- On reading
- エン en
- Kun reading
- なまり namari
- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- 金 metal, gold
- Level
- Level 7 · junior high school
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- chì (duyên)
- Japanese
- なまり。おもい きんぞく。
- Korean
- 납 (연)
- Chinese
- 铅
Readings, words and example sentences
エン en · on reading · less common
鉛筆
pencil
鉛筆で 下書きを します。
I make a rough draft in pencil.
なまり namari · kun reading · less common
鉛
lead (a metal)
鉛は とても 重い 金ぞくです。
Lead is a very heavy metal.
Practise writing 鉛 in the app
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Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.