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Mythic Mandarin

锤 (chuí): meaning and stroke order

锤 (chuí) means hammer, to hammer into shape, weight (e.g. of a steelyard or balance).

锤

Simplified
锤
Traditional
錘, 鎚
Pinyin
chuí

Stroke order of 锤

锤

  • chuí hammer; to hammer into shape
  • chuí variant of 錘|锤[chui2]
  • 13 strokes
  • Traditional form: 錘

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 锤

  1. chuí Traditional 錘
    • hammer
    • to hammer into shape
    • weight (e.g. of a steelyard or balance)
    • to strike with a hammer
  2. chuí Traditional 鎚
    • variant of 錘|锤[chui2]

Radical and structure

锤
Radical 钅 (Kangxi radical 167) in its simplified form · 13 strokes · 钅 on the left, 垂 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Words with 锤

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).