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锉

cuò

Character Traditional 剉

What 锉 means

1. literaryto fracture (a bone)
2. literaryto cut
3. to hack
4. variant of {锉|cuò}

Other readings

锉 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• cuòfile (tool used for smoothing); rasp; to file

Words starting with 锉

• 锉冰cuò bīngshaved ice dessert (Tw)
• 锉尸cuò shīto cut the corpse of a criminal into pieces
• 锉刀cuò dāofile (metalworking and woodworking tool)

Characters built on 坐

These share the phonetic component 坐 (zuò), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 座zuòseat; base; stand; (bound form) constellation
• 挫cuòobstructed; to fail; to oppress
• 痤cuóacne
• 唑zuòazole (chemistry)
• 矬cuóshort; dwarfish
• 脞cuǒchopped meat; trifles

Characters that look like 锉

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 错cuòmistake; wrong; bad
• 锤chuíhammer; to hammer into shape; weight (e.g. of a steelyard or balance)
• 辍chuòto stop (before completion); to cease; to suspend
• 锆gàozirconium (chemistry)
• 锄chúa hoe; to hoe or dig; to weed
• 锗zhěgermanium (chemistry)

Sounds the same

Read cuò, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 错mistake; wrong; bad
• 措to handle; to manage; to put in order
• 挫obstructed; to fail; to oppress
• 厝to lay in place; to put; to place a coffin in a temporary location pending burial
• 剒to cut; to carve
• 棤rough tree bark
• 莝to chop straw fine for animals
• 蓌to squat (in salutation)