pencil lead

English

Pronunciation

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Noun

pencil lead (countable and uncountable, plural pencil leads)

1. The material (usually black or dark gray) which allows a pencil to work. Usually a mixture of graphite and smaller amounts of other material, but not actual lead.

Translations

graphite refill for writing tool

• Bulgarian: графит m (grafit)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 筆芯 / 笔芯 (bat¹ sam¹), 筆鉛 / 笔铅 (bat¹ jyun⁴)

  Mandarin: 筆芯 / 笔芯 (zh) (bǐxīn), 筆鉛 / 笔铅 (zh) (bǐqiān), 鉛筆鉛 / 铅笔铅 (qiānbǐqiān)

  Min Nan: 鉛筆芯 / 铅笔芯 (iân-pit-sim), 鉛筆鉛 / 铅笔铅 (iân-pit-iân)

• Dutch: stift (nl)
• Finnish: lyijykynän lyijy, lyijy (fi)
• French: mine (fr) f
• Irish: luaidhe f
• Italian: mina (it) f
• Japanese: 鉛筆の芯 (enpitsu no shin)
• Korean: 연필심 (yeonpilsim)
• Pannonian Rusyn: оловко n (olovko)
• Polish: grafit do ołówka m
• Punjabi: ਸਿੱਕਾ m (sikkā)
• Russian: графи́т (ru) m (grafít), гри́фель (ru) m (grífelʹ)
• Spanish: mina (es) f, grafito (es) m, barrita (es) f, punta (es) f
• Swedish: stift (sv) n
• Zazaki: tuj (diq) m, tujê qelem (diq)

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• German: ^{(please verify)} Mine (de) f
• Hungarian: ^{(please verify)} ceruzabél (hu), ^{(please verify)} grafit (hu), ^{(please verify)} bél (hu), ^{(please verify)} betét (hu)
• Japanese: ^{(please verify)} 芯 (ja) (shin)
• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 심 (ko) (sim)
• Malayalam: ^{(please verify)} പെൻസിൽ മുന (peṉsil muna)
• Plautdietsch: ^{(please verify)} Blie n
• Portuguese: ^{(please verify)} grafite (pt) f, ^{(please verify)} mina (pt) f
• Tagalog: ^{(please verify)} tasa
• Turkish: ^{(please verify)} uç (tr), ^{(please verify)} kalem ucu

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