zhù
melt
Phonosemantic compound. 釒 represents the meaning and 壽 represents the sound.
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 鑄
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
to cast or found metals | ||
to cast (pour metal into a mold) | ||
to cast in metal | ||
casting | ||
pig iron |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*tu-s (MC F!) | tsyuH | zhù | to cast (a bronze vessel) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.9382% of movies
2919th most common character in movies
2530th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 22 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+9444 |
Shuowen | “鑄,銷金也。从金,壽聲。” |
Sources
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