凿
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See also: 鑿
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Translingual
Han character
凿 (Kangxi radical 17, 凵+10, 12 strokes, cangjie input 廿金廿山 (TCTU), four-corner 32772, composition ⿱业⿶凵𢆉)
Derived characters
Related characters
- 鑿 (Traditional form of 凿)
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 135, character 21
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 310, character 2
- Unihan data for U+51FF
Chinese
Glyph origin
Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) – (⿱丵臼*) A chisel inside of a mortar, an ancient form of 鑿, dating back to oracle bone inscriptions, components such as 殳 and 金 were added later.
- This section refers to ⿱丵凵 glyph; see
Han unification to learn more.
Used as a shorthand in popular novels of the Qing dynasty.
Eventually adopted as an official simplified character by the People's Republic of China in the 1956 Chinese Character Simplification Scheme.
Definitions
| For pronunciation and definitions of 凿 – see 鑿 (“chisel; to bore; to cut a hole; to chisel; etc.”). (This character is the simplified and variant form of 鑿). |
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