Chinese Character Wiki

釗

zhāo

endeavor

A metal 釒 knife 刂; 刂 also provides the pronunciation

Components
釒 meaning component

釒  Meaning component

jīn

  

metal

刂 sound,meaning component

刂  Sound Meaning component

dāo

  

knife

Evolution

釗 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
釗 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
釗 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

钊 (釗) 

zhāo

endeavor, strive; encourage; cut; to encourage; to cut; to strain

Most common words with 釗
Freq.
Word
Meaning

钊

to cut

李大钊

Li Dazhao (1889-1927), early Chinese Marxist and founding member of the communist party

章士钊

Zhang Shizhao (1881-1973), revolutionary journalist in Shanghai, then established writer

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3334th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Simplified

钊

Unicode

U+91D7

Shuowen

“釗，刓也。从刀，从金。周康王名。”


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