duàn
forge metal
Simplified form of 鍛. Phonosemantic compound. 金 represents the meaning and 段 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernStatistics
HSK level 4
Appears in 5.8145% of movies
2375th most common character in movies
2531st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 14 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+953B |
Sources
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