Hikari Corporation

The word "plating" is sometimes written as "plating" or "plating".

Why are there different ways to write the same plating?

 

Originally, it was called "Kintoki" which means "paint gold", which is one of the procedures of "Amalgam method" used when gold-plating the Great Buddha of Nara.

* For details on the "Amalgam method", refer to [History of plating].

Also, in the "Amalgam method", gold disappears when mercury and gold are mixed, so it was also called gold (plating), which means "gold disappears (becomes invisible)". ‥

 

After that, the "n" of "plating" was removed, and the name changed to "plating", and the Chinese character "plating" was used. However, since the kanji "鍍" is not a common kanji, the hiragana "plating" is often used.

 

For readability, it is often written in katakana as "plating", but since it is not a loan word, it is correct to write it in hiragana, and the JIS standard and the Surface Technology Association have unified it with "plating". I am.