鍛

See also 煅, and 锻

Translingual

Etymology

金 + 段 (stairs for descent), to beat metal low

Han character

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

1. forge metal
2. temper, refine

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

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Cantonese

Hanzi

鍛 (simplified 锻, Yale dyun3)

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Japanese

Kanji

鍛 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: たん (tan)
• Kun: きたえる (kitaeru)

Compounds

• 鍛冶
• 鍛錬, 鍛練

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

simpl.		锻
trad.		鍛

Hanzi

鍛 (simplified 锻, pinyin duàn (duan4), Wade-Giles tuan⁴)

Verb

鍛 (traditional, Pinyin duàn, simplified 锻)

1. to forge; to shape metal

   鍛造 (duànzào)

Compounds

• 鍛錘
• 鍛打
• 鍛工
• 鍛焊
• 鍛件
• 鍛鍊
• 鍛模
• 鍛鐵
• 鍛壓
• 鍛冶
• 鍛造

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Vietnamese

Han character

鍛 (đoán, đoàn)