锤
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hammer; to hammer into shape; weight (e.g. of a steelyard or balance); to strike with a hammer
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- 金 +8
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 錘
- Common rank
- #1,927
- Unicode
- U+9524
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Formation & memory
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How to remember it
hammer · Heisig RSH #1242
metal + 垂 droop
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 锤
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 一锤定音 | lit. to fix the tone with a single hammer blow; fig. to make the final decision | |
| 雷神之锤 | Quake (video game series) | |
| 流星锤 | meteor hammer (ancient weapon consisting of two iron balls connected by a chain) | |
| 一锤子买卖 | a one-off, short-sighted deal; a one-shot, all-out attempt | |
| 羊角锤 | claw hammer | |
| 铜锤花脸 | (Chinese opera) tongchui hualian, a military character holding a bronze mace, classified a… | |
| 大锤 | sledgehammer | |
| 锤子 | hammer; CL:把[ba3] | |
| 手锤 | mallet; drumstick | |
| 气锤 | air hammer; pneumatic hammer | |
| 电锤 | rotary hammer; hammer drill | |
| 千锤百炼 | after hard work and numerous revisions (idiom); the vicissitudes of life | |
| 实锤 | (neologism c. 2014) (slang) solid proof; irrefutable evidence | |
| 沙锤 | maraca | |
| 锤骨 | malleus or hammer bone of middle ear | |
| 求锤得锤 | (neologism c. 2017) (slang) to demand proof of what one believes to be an unfounded accusa… | |
| 起钉锤 | claw hammer | |
| 包剪锤 | rock-paper-scissors (game) | |
| 测锤 | bob of plumb line | |
| 锤骨柄 | manubrium of malleus (handle of hammer bone), connecting ossicles 聽小骨|听小骨 to tympanum 鼓膜 |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 垂 — compare how they read.