鏝
màn

trowel

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangmoːn
moːns

說文解字

𨮯杇也。从金曼聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

镘 màn trowel Simplified

Components

钅
钅 Meaning component
jīn metal

metal

曼
曼 Sound component
màn long

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode