Chinese Character Wiki

鍥

qiè

sickle

Something engraved 契 in metal 釒; 契 also provides the pronunciation

Components
釒 meaning component

釒  Meaning component

jīn

  

metal

契 sound,meaning component

契  Sound Meaning component

qì

  

deed

Evolution

鍥 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
鍥 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

锲 (鍥) 

qiè

sickle; cut, carve, engrave; to cut; to carve; to engrave; to chisel; fig. to chisel away at

Most common words with 鍥
Freq.
Word
Meaning

锲而不舍

to persevere

锲

to cut

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*kʰˤet

khet

qiè

cut; a sickle


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4771st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

17

Simplified

锲

Unicode

U+9365

Shuowen

“鍥，鎌也。从金，契聲。”


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