砧 — Chinese character
砧
zhēn
anvil, flat stone
- Pinyin
- zhēn
- Radical
- 112 ⽯ (Stone)
- Strokes
- 10
- Components
- 石 占
- Formation
- pictophonetic — stone; meaning component 石; sound component 占
- Japanese
- 砧 as a kanji
Common words with 砧
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 砧板 | zhēn bǎn | cutting board; chopping block |
| 铁砧 (鐵砧) | tiě zhēn | anvil |
| 砧木 | zhēn mù | rootstock (stem onto which a branch is grafted) |
| 砧骨 | zhēn gǔ | incus or anvil bone of middle ear, passing sound vibration from malleus hammer bone to stapes stirrup bone |
| 角砧 | jiǎo zhēn | beck iron (corner of anvil) |
English words written with 砧
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.