cuò

carpenter's file

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
釒 meaning component

  Meaning component

jīn

  

metal

is a component form of .

坐 sound component

  Sound component

zuò

  

sit

Evolution

銼 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
銼 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
銼 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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cuò

carpenter's file, file smooth; file (tool used for smoothing); rasp; to file

Most common words with 銼
Freq.
Word
Meaning

rasp

锉刀

file (metalworking and woodworking tool)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4866th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Simplified

Unicode

U+92BC

Shuowen

“銼,鍑也。从金,坐聲。”


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