shā

moult samarium

A metal  weapon 

Components
釒 meaning component

  Meaning component

jīn

  

metal

殺 meaning component

  Meaning component

shā

  

kill

Evolution

鎩 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
鎩 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

shā

moult samarium; spear; to cripple (literary)

Most common words with 鎩
Freq.
Word
Meaning

铩羽而归

to return in low spirits following a defeat or failure to achieve one's ambitions (idiom)

spear

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4683rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

18

Simplified

Unicode

U+93A9

Shuowen

“鎩,鈹有鐸也。从金,殺聲。”


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