Chinese symbol for “rasp”
锉
cuò
Traditional: 銼
file (tool used for smoothing); rasp; to file
The closest CC-CEDICT match for rasp is 锉 (cuò), defined as: file (tool used for smoothing); rasp; to file.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 锉.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 锉刀 (銼刀) | cuò dāo | file (metalworking and woodworking tool) |
| 锉冰 (剉冰) | cuò bīng | shaved ice dessert (Tw) |
| 锉尸 (剉屍) | cuò shī | to cut the corpse of a criminal into pieces |
See also: Japanese symbol for “rasp”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.