鋸 Definitions — Dong Chinese Dictionary

jù HSK7

a saw

锯 (鋸) jù

to saw verb: to cut or divide something using a saw; 木匠正在把圆木锯成木板。

mùjiàng zhèngzài bǎ yuánmù jù chéng mùbǎn.

The carpenter is sawing the logs into boards.

saw noun: a hand or power tool for cutting wood or other materials, typically with a toothed blade; 这把锯非常锋利。

zhè bǎ jù fēicháng fēnglì.

This saw is very sharp.

Cross-References

Variant of

锔 jū

Frequency

Character

Written text: 3,078th most common 8.83 per million
Movie subtitles: 2,384th most common 10.4 per million appears in 4% of films

Word

Movie subtitles: 8.05 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text: 4.19 per million

Details

HSK 3.0: Level 7
Simplified: 锯
Strokes: 16
Unicode: U+92F8

Sources

Definitions: CC-CEDICT
Frequency data: MTSU Chinese text computing SUBTLEX-CH BCC Corpus (BLCU)