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鍛

鍛

See also: 煅 and 锻

Translingual

Han character

鍛 (radical 167 金+9, 17 strokes, cangjie input 金竹十水 (CHJE), four-corner 87147, composition ⿰釒段)

References

  • KangXi: page 1314, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40625
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1814, character 26
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4233, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+935B

Chinese

trad. 鍛
simp. 锻

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (段) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
鍛 *toːns
腶 *toːns
碫 *toːns
瑖 *toːns
緞 *doːnʔ, *doːns
段 *doːns
椴 *doːns
毈 *doːns

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *toːns) : semantic 釒 ‎(“metal”) + phonetic 段 ‎(OC *doːns).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 鍛
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 端 (5)
Final (韻) 桓 (62)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) I
Fanqie 丁貫切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /tuɑnH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /tʷɑnH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /tuɑnH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /twanH/
Li
Rong		 /tuɑnH/
Wang
Li		 /tuɑnH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /tuɑnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 duàn
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 鍛
Reading # 1/1
No. 2529
Phonetic
component		 段
Rime
group		 元
Rime
subdivision		 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 鍛
Old
Chinese		 /*toːns/

Definitions

鍛

  1. to forge; to shape metal
    鍛造 / 锻造  ―  duànzào  ―  to forge
  2. to temper; to refine

Compounds

  • 日鍛月煉／日锻月炼
  • 月鍛季煉／月锻季炼
  • 百鍛千練／百锻千练
  • 鍛件／锻件
  • 鍛冶／锻冶 (duànyě)
  • 鍛壓／锻压
  • 鍛工／锻工
  • 鍛打／锻打
  • 鍛接／锻接
  • 鍛模／锻模
  • 鍛焊／锻焊
  • 鍛燒／锻烧

Japanese

Kanji

鍛

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

鍛 • ‎(dan) (hangeul 단, revised dan, McCune-Reischauer tan, Yale tan)

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Vietnamese

Han character

鍛 (đoán, đoàn)

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