zhù

melt

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and 寿 represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
钅 meaning component

  Meaning component

jīn

  

metal

is a component form of .

寿 sound component

寿  Sound component

shòu

  

old age

Evolution

铸 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
铸 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
铸 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
铸 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
铸 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

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zhù

melt, cast; coin, mint; to cast or found metals

Most common words with 铸
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to cast or found metals

铸造

to cast (pour metal into a mold)

铸成

to cast in metal

铸件

casting

铸铁

pig iron

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.9382% of movies

2919th most common character in movies

2530th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Traditional

Unicode

U+94F8


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