镓 (jiā): gallium (chemistry)
镓 (jiā) is a Chinese character meaning “gallium (chemistry).” Outside the HSK 3.0 syllabus (CLEC 2022), it is composed of 钅 (semantic) and 家 (phonetic). It ranks #4623 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 镓 metal. Its radical form 钅 (metal) appears in many related characters such as 金 (jīn, metal, gold), 钱 (qián, money), 银 (yín, silver, bank).
Definitions
- gallium (chemistry)
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
镓 appears in 2 compound words: 0 as the first character, 100 as the last, and 0 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Example Sentences
充电头这个品类卷了这么多年,从体积卷到氮化镓,现在开始卷“屏幕”了。
chōng diàn tóu zhè gè pǐn lèi juǎn le zhè me duō nián , cóng tǐ jī juǎn dào dàn huà jiā , xiàn zài kāi shǐ juǎn píng mù le .
The charger market has been in a fierce competition for years—from size to gallium nitride—and now the focus has shifted to “screens.”
全球首次:杭州镓仁半导体实现 12 英寸氧化镓晶体等径生长
quán qiú shǒu cì : háng zhōu jiā rén bàn dǎo tǐ shí xiàn 1 2 yīng cùn yǎng huà jiā jīng tǐ děng jìng shēng cháng
A World First: Hangzhou Garren Semiconductor Achieves Equidiameter Growth of 12-Inch Gallium Oxide Crystals
英飞凌侵权英诺赛科,相关氮化镓产品被禁止在中国境内销售
yīng fēi líng qīn quán yīng nuò sài kē , xiāng guān dàn huà jiā chǎn pǐn bèi jìn zhǐ zài zhōng guó jìng nèi xiāo shòu
Infineon Infringes on Innosilicon's Patents; Sales of Related Gallium Nitride Products Banned in China
产品质量、性能“不尽人意”,曝三星电子氮化镓器件未能投入量产
chǎn pǐn zhì liàng , xìng néng bù jǐn rén yì , pù sān xīng diàn zǐ dàn huà jiā qì jiàn wèi néng tóu rù liàng chǎn
Product quality and performance are "less than satisfactory"; reports indicate that Samsung Electronics' gallium nitride devices have not yet entered mass production
Character Family
Semantic Family — Characters sharing the 钅 (metal) component
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