weapon

Origin & mnemonic

A pictograph from oracle-bone script depicting an ancient halberd (a double-bladed weapon), originally showing a wooden shaft with two curved metal blades extending outward.

Mnemonic: Two crossed strokes resemble the two sharp blades of an ancient double-edged weapon spreading outward.

• 殳shū🔊

  ancient staff-like weapon made of bamboo or wood

  4 strokes

• 殴ōu🔊

  to beat up

  8 strokes

• 段duàn🔊

  paragraph

  HSK 2

  9 strokes

• 杀shā🔊

  to kill; to slay; to murder; to attack

  HSK 5

  10 strokes

• 㱾gāi🔊

  a kind of metal or jade ornament worn in ancient times to ward off evil spirits

  10 strokes

• 殷yīn🔊

  flourishing

  10 strokes

• 壳ké🔊

  (coll.) shell (of an egg, nut, crab etc)

  HSK 7

  11 strokes

• 殸qìng🔊

  variant of 磬[qing4]

  11 strokes

• 殹yì🔊

  (archaic) (meaning unclear)

  11 strokes

• 毁huǐ🔊

  to destroy; to ruin

  HSK 6

  13 strokes

• 殿diàn🔊

  palace hall

  13 strokes

• 毂gǔ🔊

  the hub of wheel

  13 strokes

• 毅yì🔊

  firm and resolute

  15 strokes

• 㲈sháo🔊

  variant of 韶[shao2]

  16 strokes

• 毈duàn🔊

  infertile egg

  16 strokes

• 毉yī🔊

  variant of 醫|医[yi1]

  18 strokes