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鑄

zhù

melt

Phonosemantic compound. 釒 represents the meaning and 壽 represents the sound.

Components
釒 meaning component

釒  Meaning component

jīn

  

metal

釒 is a component form of 金.

壽 sound component

壽  Sound component

shòu

  

old age

Evolution

鑄 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
鑄 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
鑄 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
鑄 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
鑄 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

铸 (鑄) 

zhù

melt, cast; coin, mint; to cast or found metals

Most common words with 鑄
Freq.
Word
Meaning

铸

to cast or found metals

铸造

to cast (pour metal into a mold)

铸成

to cast in metal

铸件

casting

铸铁

pig iron

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*tu-s (MC F!)

tsyuH

zhù

to cast (a bronze vessel)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.9382% of movies

2919th most common character in movies

2530th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

22

Simplified

铸

Unicode

U+9444

Shuowen

“鑄，銷金也。从金，壽聲。”


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