錘
chuí

balance weight on scale

锤 (錘) chuí
hammer noun
a tool with a heavy metal head used for hitting or driving nails

他手里拿着一把沉重的铁锤。

tā shǒu lǐ ná zhe yī bǎ chén​zhòng de tiě chuí.

He held a heavy iron hammer in his hand.

to hammer verb
to strike with a hammer or to hammer metal into a specific shape

铁匠把红热的铁块锤成了薄片。

tiě​jiang bǎ hóng​rè de tiě​kuài chuí chéng le báo​piàn.

The blacksmith hammered the red-hot iron into a thin sheet.

weight noun
a sliding weight used on a steelyard, balance, or plumb line

在使用杆秤时，需要移动秤锤来平衡。

zài shǐ​yòng gǎn​chèng shí, xū​yào yí​dòng chèng​chuí lái píng​héng.

When using a steelyard, you need to move the weight to balance it.

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,937th most common 10.7 per million
Movie subtitles
2,361st most common 10.9 per million appears in 4% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
4.23 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
7.12 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
Simplified
锤
Strokes
16
Unicode
U+9318

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