鎦

鎦 (Kangxi radical 167, 金+10, 18 strokes, cangjie input 金竹竹田 (CHHW), four-corner 8216₃, composition ⿰釒留)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1318, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40734
• Dae Jaweon: page 1817, character 26
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4243, character 6
• Unihan data for U+93A6

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *m·ru) : semantic 金 (“metal”) + phonetic 留 (OC *m·ru, *m·rus).

鎦

1. a traditional Chinese gilding process involving gold dissolved in mercury, which is painted on silver, copper, brass, or bronze wares

   alt. forms: 鎏 (liú)

   鎦金／镏金  ―  liújīn  ―  (please add an English translation of this usage example)

2. ^‡ Alternative form of 劉／刘 (liú, “to kill”)
3. a surname

鎦

1. (dialectal) finger ring
2. ^‡ pot

   alt. forms: 磂

From New Latin lutetium.

鎦

1. (Taiwan, obsolete in Mainland China, chemistry) lutetium

   Synonym: 鑥／镥 (lǔ) (Mainland China)

• “鎦”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B05423

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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• Go-on: る (ru)
• Kan-on: りゅう (ryū)
• Kun: こしき (koshiki, 鎦)