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鑽

zuān, zuàn

drill

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

Components
釒 meaning component

釒  Meaning component

jīn

  

metal

釒 is a component form of 金.

贊 sound component

贊  Sound component

zàn

  

praise, support

Evolution

鑽 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
鑽 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
鑽 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

钻 (鑽) 

zuān

drill, bore; pierce; diamond; to drill; to bore; to get into; to make one's way into; to enter (a hole); to thread one's way through; to study intensively; to dig into; to curry favor for personal gain

钻 (鑽) 

zuàn

an auger

Most common words with 鑽
Freq.
Word
Meaning

钻

to drill

钻石

diamond

钻进

to get into

钻研

to delve into

钻头

drill bit

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ts]ˤor

tswan

zuān

perforate, penetrate


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 15.2010% of movies

1399th most common character in movies

1724th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

27

Simplified

钻𰿆

Unicode

U+947D

Shuowen

“鑽，所以穿也。从金，贊聲。”


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