tiě
iron
Phonosemantic compound. 金 represents the meaning and 𢧤 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*l̥ˤik | thet | tiě | iron |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 28.0474% of movies
1135th most common character in movies
779th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 21 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+9435 |
Shuowen | “鐵，黑金也。从金，聲。，鐵或省。銕，古文鐵从夷。” |
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