凿

See also: 鑿

凿 U+51FF, 凿 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-51FF ← 凾 [U+51FE] CJK Unified Ideographs 刀 → [U+5200]

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

• 𨬭, 𥽦, 𦦹, 𨯳

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).

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.