jiá

tongs

Evolution

鋏 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
Definitions

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jiá

tongs, pincers; dagger; sword; pincers for use at a fire

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

6536th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Simplified

Unicode

U+92CF

Shuowen

“鋏,可以持冶器鑄鎔者。从金,夾聲。讀若漁人莢魚之莢。一曰若挾持。”


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