steel

Components
釒 meaning component

  Meaning component

jīn

  

metal

metal

巨 sound component

  Sound component

  

large

Evolution

鉅 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
鉅 Clerical script Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)
鉅 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

steel, iron; great; hard iron; hook; variant of [jù]; variant of |[jù]

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4606th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Simplified

Unicode

U+9245

Shuowen

“鉅,大剛也。从金,巨聲。”


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