shuò
melt
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical script
Wu (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 鑠
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
hale and hearty | ||
bright | ||
fig. public clamor can obscure the actual truth | ||
flickering |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*r̥ewk (W dialect: *r̥- > *x-, palatalizing) | syak | shuò | melt, infuse |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
5473rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 23 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+9460 |
Shuowen | “鑠,銷金也。从金,樂聲。” |
Sources
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