a needle used in Chinese medicine

Evolution

鈹 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
鈹 Clerical script Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
Definitions

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a needle used in Chinese medicine; a sword, large knife; beryllium

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beryllium (chemistry)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5709th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Simplified

Unicode

U+9239

Shuowen

“鈹,大鍼也。一曰劒如刀裝者。从金,皮聲。”


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