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Chinese symbol for “polished”

锃
zèng
Traditional: 鋥
polished; shiny

The closest CC-CEDICT match for polished is 锃 (zèng), defined as: polished; shiny.

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Characters and stroke order

锃 zèng
to polish, to shine
radical 167 ⾦ · 12 strokes

Traditional forms

Other Chinese words for “polished”

WordPinyinMeaning
精炼 (精煉)jīng liànto refine (a substance); to purify

Related words

Other words that share a character with 锃.

WordPinyinMeaning
锃亮 (鋥亮)zèng liàngshiny
亮锃锃 (亮鋥鋥)liàng zèng zèngpolished to a shine; shiny
锃光 (鋥光)zèng guāngshiny

See also: Japanese symbol for “polished”.

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.