• The㕣 component's top can appear as八,儿, or几.

鉛 (Kangxi radical 167,金+5, 13 strokes,cangjie input金金口 (CCR) or金竹弓口 (CHNR),four-corner8816₀,composition⿰釒㕣)

• Kangxi Dictionary:page 1301, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40310
• Dae Jaweon: page 1803, character 19
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4189, character 1
• Unihan data for U+925B

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声,OC*lon): semantic 金(“metal”) + phonetic 㕣(OC*lon) – a kind of metal.

Most varieties have a pronunciation derived from a velar initial.

• Schuessler (2007) see it a re-etymologization towards掔 (MC khean|khen, “solid; hard”).
• PerLiu (2022), it is fromWu, in which the character鉛 /铅 is used to denote an etymon meaning "tinplate" with this velar pronunciation. As for further etymology, Liu suggested it an Indo-European-sourced borrowing, cf.Englishcan(“metal container”).

Thisetymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

鉛

Wikipedia has articles on:

• 鉛 /铅(Chinese)
• Lead(English)

1. (chemistry)lead (Pb)
2. lead(in a pencil);graphite

• (lead (Pb)):(Taoism)嬰兒／婴儿 (yīng'ér)
• (graphite):石墨 (shímò)

鉛

1. used in鉛山／铅山 (Yánshān)

• “鉛”, in漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1],香港中文大學 (theChinese University of Hong Kong),2014–
• 李如龙[Li, Ru-long];刘福铸[Liu, Fu-zhu];吴华英[Wu, Hua-ying];黄国城[Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019), “铅”, in莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min),Xiamen University Press,→ISBN, page227.

Shinjitai	鉛
Kyūjitai [1]	鉛󠄁 鉛+󠄁? (Adobe-Japan1)
	鉛󠄅 鉛+󠄅? (Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho)
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(Jōyō kanji)

• Go-on:えん(en,Jōyō)
• Kan-on:えん(en,Jōyō)
• Kun:なまり(namari,鉛,Jōyō)

Perhaps related toGoguryeo乃勿(*namur). Compare Korean납(nap).

• (Tokyo)なまり[nàmárí] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [na̠ma̠ɾʲi]

JapaneseWikipedia has an article on:

鉛

Wikipedia^ja

鉛(なまり)• (namari)  (uncountable)

1. lead(chemical element)

FromMiddle Chinese鉛 (MC ywen).

• IPA^(key): [ẽ̞ɴ]

鉛(えん)• (en) 

1. lead(chemical element)

• 鉛(えん)筆(ぴつ)(enpitsu):pencil

• “鉛”, in漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[2] (in Japanese),The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation,2015–2025

鉛• (yeon) (hangeul연)

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out andadd a translation, then remove the text{{rfdef}}.

鉛:Hán Việt readings:duyên (余(dư)專(chuyên)切(thiết))^[1]
鉛:Nôm readings:ven^[2],diên^[3],duyên^[3]

1. chữ Hán form ofduyên(“lead”)

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