镁 — Chinese character
镁
měi
magnesium
- Pinyin
- měi
- Radical
- 167 ⾦ (Gold)
- Strokes
- 14
- Components
- 钅 美
- Formation
- pictophonetic — metal; meaning component 钅; sound component 美
- Traditional
- 鎂
Common words with 镁
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 镁光灯 (鎂光燈) | měi guāng dēng | magnesium flashbulb; (fig.) media spotlight; public attention |
| 氧化镁 (氧化鎂) | yǎng huà měi | magnesium oxide MgO |
| 硫酸镁 (硫酸鎂) | liú suān měi | magnesium sulfate |
| 菱镁矿 (菱鎂礦) | líng měi kuàng | magnesite; magnesium ore |
| 镁粉 (鎂粉) | měi fěn | magnesium powder (used in pyrotechnics etc); (sports) gym chalk (magnesium carbonate), used as a drying agent on the hands of gymnasts, weight lifters etc |
| 氢氧化镁 (氫氧化鎂) | qīng yǎng huà měi | magnesium hydroxide Mg(OH)2 |
| 镁砂 (鎂砂) | měi shā | magnesium oxide (refractory material) |
| 镁光 (鎂光) | měi guāng | magnesium light (produced by burning magnesium) |
| 矽镁层 (矽鎂層) | xī měi céng | sima (geology); silicon and magnesium layer in earth's crust |
| 镁棒 (鎂棒) | měi bàng | ferrocerium rod; fire steel |
| 镁砖 (鎂磚) | měi zhuān | magnesium brick (refractory material) |
| 镁盐 (鎂鹽) | měi yán | magnesium salt |
English words written with 镁
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.