鑿 — Chinese character
鑿
záo
chisel; to bore, to pierce
- Pinyin
- záo
- Radical
- 167 ⾦ (Gold)
- Strokes
- 28
- Components
- 丵 臼 殳 金
- Formation
- ideographic — A metal 金 drill 丵 boring a hole 臼; 殳 provides the pronunciation
- Simplified
- 凿
- Japanese
- 鑿 as a kanji
鑿 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Tao Te Ching 1 · Mencius 2 · Zhuangzi 12
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 11
- Mencius 1B.13
- Mencius 4B.26
- Zhuangzi How to Govern
- Zhuangzi On Letting Alone
- Zhuangzi The Universe
- Zhuangzi The Tao of God
- Zhuangzi Kêng Sang Ch’u
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.