"paktong" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: paktongs [plural]
Rhymes: -ɒŋ Etymology: Anglicisation of Cantonese 白銅/白铜 (baak6 tung4, “white copper”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|yue|-}} Cantonese, {{zh-l|白銅|baak6 tung4|white copper}} 白銅/白铜 (baak6 tung4, “white copper”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} paktong (countable and uncountable, plural paktongs)
  1. An alloy of zinc, copper and nickel, closely resembling silver, of Chinese origin; any of a number of similar alloys developed in imitation of the Chinese product. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Alloys Translations (alloy): خَارَصِين (ḵāraṣīn) [masculine] (Arabic), تُوتِيَاء مَعْدِنِيّ (tūtiyāʔ maʕdiniyy) [masculine] (Arabic), رُوح تُوتِيَاء (rūḥ tūtiyāʔ) [feminine] (Arabic), تُوتِيَاء مَعْدِنِيَّة (tūtiyāʔ maʕdiniyya) [feminine] (Arabic), 白銅 (Chinese Mandarin), 白铜 (báitóng) (Chinese Mandarin), paktong (Finnish), cuivre blanc des Chinois [masculine] (French), toutenague [feminine] (French), packfung [masculine] (French), pacfung [masculine] (French), packfong [masculine] (French), pacfong [masculine] (French), Paktong [neuter] (German), Packfong [neuter] (German), Packtong [neuter] (German), Pakfong [neuter] (German), chinesisches Weißkupfer [neuter] (German), 백동 (baekdong) (Korean), خارچینی (xâr-čini) (Persian), nysilver [neuter] (Swedish)

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