duàn
forge metal
Phonosemantic compound. 金 represents the meaning and 段 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernStatistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 5.8145% of movies
2375th most common character in movies
2531st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 17 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+935B |
Shuowen | “鍛,小冶也。从金,段聲。” |
Sources
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