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锤

chuí

HSK 6 Character Traditional 錘

What 锤 means

1. hammer
2. to hammer into shape
3. weight (e.g. of a steelyard or balance)
4. to strike with a hammer

Other readings

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

• chuívariant of {锤|chuí}

Example sentences

• 锤子在哪里？
  Where is the hammer?
• 我有不同尺寸的锤子。
  I have hammers of different sizes.
• 锤子与镰刀代表共产主义。
  Chuízi yǔ liándāo dàibiǎo gòngchǎnzhǔyì.
  The hammer and sickle symbolizes communism.
• 汤姆从玛丽那里拿走了锤子。
  Tāngmǔ cóng Mǎlì nàli názǒu le chuízi.
  Tom took the hammer away from Mary.
• 你到厨房里替我把一把锤子拿来。
  Nǐ dào chúfáng lǐ tì wǒ bǎ yī bǎ chuízi nálái.
  Could you get a hammer for me from the kitchen please?
• 这是锤子。不是我的，借一个朋友的。
  Zhè shì chuízi. bù shì wǒ de, jiè yī gè péngyou de.
  This is a hammer. It's not mine; I borrowed it from a friend.

Words starting with 锤

• 锤子chuí zihammer
• 锤骨chuí gǔmalleus or hammer bone of middle ear
• 锤头鲨chuí tóu shāa hammerhead shark
• 锤骨柄chuí gǔ bǐngmanubrium of malleus (handle of hammer bone), connecting ossicles 听小骨 to tympanum 鼓膜

Words containing 锤

• 大锤dà chuísledgehammer
• 实锤shí chuí(neologism c. 2014) (slang) solid proof; irrefutable evidence
• 手锤shǒu chuímallet; drumstick
• 气锤qì chuíair hammer; pneumatic hammer
• 沙锤shā chuímaraca
• 测锤cè chuíbob of plumb line
• 琴锤qín chuímallet; drumstick
• 纺锤fǎng chuíspindle
• 钉锤dīng chuínail hammer; claw hammer
• 铅锤qiān chuíbob of a plumbline
• 铜锤tóng chuímace (weapon); (Chinese opera) "tongchui" (painted face role) (abbr. for 铜锤花脸
• 电锤diàn chuírotary hammer; hammer drill
• 包剪锤bāo jiǎn chuírock-paper-scissors (game)
• 拔钉锤bá dīng chuíclaw hammer
• 流星锤liú xīng chuímeteor hammer (ancient weapon consisting of two iron balls connected by a chain)
• 羊角锤yáng jiǎo chuíclaw hammer
• 起钉锤qǐ dīng chuíclaw hammer
• 求锤得锤qiú chuí dé chuí(neologism c. 2017) (slang) to demand proof of what one believes to be an unfounded…
• 铜锤花脸tóng chuí huā liǎn(Chinese opera) tongchui hualian, a military character holding a bronze mace, classified…
• 雷神之锤Léi shén zhī ChuíQuake (video game series)
• 秤锤chèng chuísteelyard weights
• 一锤定音yī chuí dìng yīnlit. to fix the tone with a single hammer blow; fig. to make the final decision
• 千锤百炼qiān chuí bǎi liànafter hard work and numerous revisions (idiom); the vicissitudes of life
• 一锤子买卖yī chuí zi mǎi màia one-off, short-sighted deal; a one-shot, all-out attempt

Characters built on 垂

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

• 睡shuìto sleep; to lie down
• 捶chuíto beat (with a stick or one's fist); to thump; to pound
• 陲chuífrontier
• 棰chuíto flog; whip

Characters that look like 锤

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

• 错cuòmistake; wrong; bad
• 锁suǒto lock; to lock up; a lock
• 铺pūto spread; to display; to set up
• 锥zhuīcone; awl; to bore
• 锺zhōngnonstandard simplified variant of 钟
• 锲qièto cut; to carve; to engrave

Sounds the same

Read chuí, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 垂to hang (down); droop; dangle
• 捶to beat (with a stick or one's fist); to thump; to pound
• 椎hammer; mallet (variant of 槌; variant of 捶
• 槌mallet; pestle; beetle (for wedging or ramming)
• 棰to flog; whip
• 陲frontier
• 圌name of a mountain
• 腄callus on the hand or foot; upper leg bone of horse or bird; buttocks
• 埀old variant of 垂