dìng

spindle

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

Components
钅 meaning component

  Meaning component

jīn

  

metal

is a component form of .

定 sound component

  Sound component

dìng

  

settle

Evolution

锭 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Traditional script

Modern
锭 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

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dìng

spindle, slab, cake, tablet; (weaving) spindle; ingot; pressed cake of medicine etc; classifier for: gold and silver ingots, ink sticks

Most common words with 锭
Freq.
Word
Meaning

ingot

银锭

silver ingot

纸锭

paper ingots (burned as offerings to the dead)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4199th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Traditional

Unicode

U+952D


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