juān

engraving tool

Evolution

鐫 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
鐫 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
鐫 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
鐫 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
Definitions

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juān

engraving tool; carve, engrave; to engrave (on wood or stone); to inscribe

Most common words with 鐫
Freq.
Word
Meaning

镌刻

to engrave

to inscribe

镌镂

to engrave

雕镌

to carve

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4233rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

20

Simplified

Unicode

U+942B

Shuowen

“鐫,穿木鐫也。从金,雋聲。一曰琢石也。讀若瀸。”


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