Chinese symbol for “bronze”
烫金
tàng jīn
Traditional: 燙金
(printing) to stamp with gold foil; to bronze
The closest CC-CEDICT match for bronze is 烫金 (tàng jīn), defined as: (printing) to stamp with gold foil; to bronze.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 烫金.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 烫伤 (燙傷) | tàng shāng | to scald |
| 滚烫 (滾燙) | gǔn tàng | boiling hot |
| 烫手山芋 (燙手山芋) | tàng shǒu shān yù | (fig.) hot potato |
| 烫发 (燙髮) | tàng fà | perm (hairstyle) |
| 熨烫 (熨燙) | yùn tàng | to iron (clothes) |
| 烫手 (燙手) | tàng shǒu | burning hot to touch |
| 资金 (資金) | zī jīn | funds; capital |
| 金融 | jīn róng | banking; finance |
See also: Japanese symbol for “bronze”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.