铜銅 in English

Measure word

• 块 kuài lump (of earth); chunk; piece; classifier for pieces of cloth, cake, soap etc; (coll.) classifier for money and... attested

How it used to be written

These are the forms of 銅, the traditional character: 铜 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

• Bronze script 戰國晚期.楚
• Clerical script 東漢
• See all 8 forms

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

• 5元硬币是黄铜做的，10元硬币是青铜做的。

  The 5 yen coin is made from brass and the 10 yen coin is made from bronze.

• 一个铜管乐队沿着路前进。

  A brass band is marching along the street.

• 在奥运会的竞赛中，金牌代表第一名，银牌代表第二名，铜牌是第三名。

  In Olympic competitions, a gold medal is for first place, a silver medal for second, and a bronze medal is for third place.

• 在奥运比赛中，金牌代表第一名，银牌代表第二名，铜牌代表第三名。

  In Olympic competitions, the gold medal represents first place, the silver medal represents second place, and the bronze medal represents third place.

• 我要铜锣烧！

  I want Dorayaki!

• 现在我开始发铜牌。

  Now I am starting to issue copper medals.

• 这把汤匙是铜制的。

  This spoon is made of copper.

• 金的颜色和黄铜很相似。

  Gold is similar in color to brass.

All example sentences with 铜