smelt

Evolution

冶 Bronze script Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)

Bronze script

Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
冶 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
冶 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
冶 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

smelt, fuse metals; cast, found; to smelt; to cast; seductive in appearance

Most common words with 冶
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to smelt

冶炼

to smelt metal

冶金

metallurgy

陶冶

fig. to educate

陶冶情操

to cultivate one's mind

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

2792nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+51B6

Shuowen

“冶,銷也。从仌,台聲。”


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