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chisel
Depicts using a chisel (丵), which is a metal (金) tool (殳), to fashion a mortar (臼).
Components
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 鑿
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
definite | ||
chisel | ||
to cut (a canal, tunnel, well etc) | ||
chisel | ||
to dig a well |
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