凿
záo HSK7

chisel

凿 鑿 záo
to chisel verb
to chisel; to bore a hole; to dig or excavate

他在门上凿了一个孔，以便装一把新锁。

tā zài mén shang záo le yī​ge kǒng, yǐ​biàn zhuāng yī​bǎ xīn suǒ.

He chiselled a hole in the door to fit a new lock.

chisel noun
a metal tool with a sharp blade for carving or cutting; a chisel (now usually referred to as 凿子 záo​zi)
authentic
(literary) certain; authentic; irrefutable, as in the word 确凿 què​záo
mortise
a hole or socket cut into a piece of wood or stone to receive a matching part; a mortise (often in the idiom 方枘圆凿 fāng​ruì​yuán​záo)

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,696th most common 14.9 per million
Movie subtitles
2,730th most common 5.72 per million appears in 3% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
1.61 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
3.31 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Traditional
鑿
Strokes
12
Unicode
U+51FF

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)