Meaning of 铅字
铅字 means movable type; printing type (traditionally cast from lead-antimony-tin alloy). Pronounced qiān zì.
- movable type; printing type (traditionally cast from lead-antimony-tin alloy)
Definitions & Examples
Bào报
shè社
de的
cāng仓
kù库
lǐ里
hái还
bǎo保
cún存
zhe着
jǐ几
hé盒
qiān铅
zì字
。
The newspaper's warehouse still preserves several boxes of movable type.
Qiān铅
zì字
yìn印
shuā刷
shù术
shì是
shí十
wǔ五
shì世
jì纪
de的
yī一
xiàng项
zhòng重
dà大
fā发
míng明
。
Movable type printing was a major invention of the fifteenth century.
Gōng工
rén人
zhèng正
zài在
pái排
bǎn版
，
bǎ把
yī一
gè个
gè个
qiān铅
zì字
fàng放
jìn进
zì字
pán盘
。
The worker is typesetting, placing individual pieces of lead type into the composing stick.