záo
chisel
Depicts using a chisel (丵), which is a metal (金) tool (殳), to fashion a mortar (臼).
Components
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 鑿
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
definite | ||
chisel | ||
to cut (a canal, tunnel, well etc) | ||
chisel | ||
to dig a well |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[dz]ˤawk | dzak | záo | chisel |
*[dz]ˤawk | dzowk | záo | chisel |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 3.4759% of movies
2730th most common character in movies
2696th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 28 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+947F |
Shuowen | “鑿，穿木也。从金。省聲。” |
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