| 銹 | |||
| rust, corrode | |||
| Radical | 金釒钅金 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Strokes (without radical) | 7 | Total Strokes | 15 |
| Mandarin reading | xiù | Cantonese reading | sau3 |
| Japanese on reading | shuu | Japanese kun reading | sabi |
| Korean reading | swu | Vietnamese reading | |
| Simplified Variant(s) | 锈 | ||
| Semantic Variant(s) | 鏽 | ||
| 銹 | [ xiù ] to corrode, to rust |
| 銹蝕 | [ xiù shí ] corrosion, rust |
| ⇒ 不銹鋼 | [ bù xiù gāng ] stainless steel |
| ⇒ 刀不磨要生銹，人不學要落後 | [ daō bù mó yaò shēng xiù rén bù xué yaò luò hoù ] a blade will get rusty if it is not sharpened; a man will fall behind if he doesn't study (idiom) |
| ⇒ 永不生銹的螺絲釘 | [ yǒng bù shēng xiù de luó sī dīng ] a "screw that never rusts" — sb who selflessly and wholeheartedly serves the Communist Party, like Lei Feng 雷鋒|雷锋[Lei2 Feng1], to whom the metaphor is attributed |
| ⇒ 生銹 | [ shēng xiù ] to rust, to grow rusty, to corrode, oxidization |
| ⇒ 腦子生銹 | [ naǒ zi shēng xiù ] lit. brains rusty, ossified thinking |
| ⇒ 防銹 | [ fáng xiù ] rust prevention, anti-corrosion |