漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
鋳: casting, mint
JLPT N115 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
金 carries the meaning · 寿 gives the sound
15 strokes
Bronze · Western Zhou Today
Bronze: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Three readings, and the words that use each
チュウchuu · on'yomi · in compounds
- 鋳造ちゅうぞうcasting; founding; minting
イi · on'yomi
- 鋳型いがたmold; mould; template
- 鋳物いものcasting; cast-metal object
いるiru · kun'yomi · on its own
- 鋳るいるto cast; to mint; to coin
Also read シュ, シュウ, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Dig deep for treasure! This radical represents the metals that form the backbone of our technology and the "gold" that has served as a global standard of value for centuries.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
In ChineseSimplified 铸 · traditional 鑄 · zhù
Three different forms: Japanese 鋳, simplified 铸, traditional 鑄.
- Simplified
- 铸 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 鑄 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin zhù 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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