"Bronze" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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青铜时代 qīng tóng shí dài Bronze
青铜 qīng tóng bronze (alloy of copper 銅|铜 / and tin 錫|锡[xi1])
烫金 tàng jīn (printing) to stamp with gold foil / to bronze
金石 jīn shí metal and stone / fig. hard objects / inscription on metal or bronze
铜牌 tóng pái bronze medal / bronze plaque bearing a business name or logo etc / CL:枚[mei2]
季军 jì jūn third in a race / bronze medalist
铜像 tóng xiàng bronze statue / CL:尊[zun1],座[zuo4]
青铜器 qīng tóng qì bronze implement / refers to ancient bronze artifacts, from c. 2,000 BC
铜器 tóng qì copper ware / bronze ware
铜鼓 Tóng gǔ bronze drum / (Western-style) drum
金文 jīn wén inscription in bronze / bell-cauldron inscription
铸铜 zhù tóng bronze casting
爵 jué ancient bronze wine holder with 3 legs and loop handle / nobility
簋 guǐ ancient bronze food vessel with a round mouth and two or four handles / round basket of bamboo
鑑 jiàn variant of 鑒|鉴 / example / mirror / to view / reflection / to reflect / to inspect / to warn / (ancient bronze mirror)
古铜色 gǔ tóng sè bronze color
三星堆 Sān xīng duī archaeological site of Sanxingdui outside Chengdu (Sichuan), exhibiting remarkable bronze artifacts from the 11-12th centuries BC
铜箭头 tóng jiàn tóu bronze arrowhead
铜铃 tóng líng bell made of copper or bronze
青铜器时代 Qīng tóng qì Shí dài the Bronze Age / also written 青銅時代|青铜时代[Qing1 tong2 Shi2 dai4]
菱花镜 líng huā jìng antique bronze mirror with flower petal edging, most commonly from the Tang dynasty
铜锤花脸 tóng chuí huā liǎn (Chinese opera) tongchui hualian, a military character holding a bronze mace, classified as a jing 淨|净[jing4] role
乐昌破镜 Lè chāng - pò jìng lit. the story of the broken mirror of Princess Lechang 樂昌公主|乐昌公主[Le4chang1 Gong1zhu3] (In the tale, the princess and her husband, fearing separation during the turbulence of war, broke a bronze mirror in half. They each kept one half as a token, with the promise to reunite by matching the pieces together. They were indeed separated, but eventually reunited, with the mirror playing a crucial role in their reunion.) (idiom) / fig. the reunion of separated lovers or the restoration of a relationship
炮烙 páo luò form of torture said to have been used by King Zhou of Shang 商紂王|商纣王[Shang1 Zhou4 Wang2] in which the victim was forced onto a bronze pillar heated by a fire
铜水 tóng shuǐ molten copper / molten bronze
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