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漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements

冶: melting, smelting

JLPT N17 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

冫 carries the meaning · 台 is drawn in

7 strokes
  • Bronze · Zhou
  • Today

Bronze: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.

One reading, and the words that use it

ヤya · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 冶金やきんmetallurgy
  • 冶やmelting

Special readingsThese words are read as a whole, not from the readings above.

  • 鍛冶かじblacksmithing; forging; smithery

Also read いる, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Where it comes from

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Brrr, it's freezing! Imagine two sharp icicles hanging from the edge of a roof.”
More in the 冫 ice story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
冫

Also built on ice (冫)

All 18
台

Also built on pedestal (台)

Also read ヤ

6 kanji share this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
冶 melting · 冫
vs治 reign · 氵
冶 has 冫 where 治 has 氵.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · yě

Same form: 冶 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).

Simplified
冶 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
冶 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin yě most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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