锻
duàn HSK4

forge metal

锻 鍛 duàn
to discipline verbnoun
(bound form) to discipline or toughen; often used in words related to physical exercise or character building
to forge verb
(bound form) to forge metal; to hammer or shape metal after heating it
whetstone
(archaic) a stone used for sharpening tools

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Frequency
Character
Written text
2,531st most common 18.6 per million
Movie subtitles
2,376th most common 10.5 per million appears in 6% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
0.330 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
2.14 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 3
HSK 3.0
Level 4
Traditional
鍛
Strokes
14
Unicode
U+953B

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