róng

fuse

A mold that holds  hot metal  also provides the pronunciation

Components
釒 meaning component

  Meaning component

jīn

  

metal

容 sound,meaning component

  Sound Meaning component

róng

  

contain; appearance

Evolution

鎔 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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róng

fuse, melt, smelt; mold; to smelt; to fuse; variant of [róng]

Most common words with 鎔
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to smelt

朱镕基

Zhu Rongji (1928-), PRC politician, premier 1998-2003