铡 — Chinese character
铡
zhá
a sickle used to cut grass or hay
- Pinyin
- zhá
- Radical
- 167 ⾦ (Gold)
- Strokes
- 11
- Components
- 钅 则
- Formation
- ideographic — A metal 钅 knife 刂; 则 also provides the pronunciation
- Traditional
- 鍘
Common words with 铡
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 铡刀 (鍘刀) | zhá dāo | lever-style guillotine (for chopping fodder etc) |
| 龙头铡 (龍頭鍘) | lóng tóu zhá | lever-style guillotine decorated with a dragon's head at the hinged end, used to behead criminals related to the emperor |
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.