铤 (dìng) · ingot; unworked block of metal

Meanings

HSK 7-9

铁匠把铜铸成铤。

Tiějiang bǎ tóng zhù chéng dìng.

The smith cast the copper into ingots.

usage

Read dìng, the character means a cast block of metal, an ingot. This sense is largely literary today; the modern everyday word for ingot is 锭.

radical

钅 jīn

metal

The metal radical, the left-side form of 金, points to the original sense of raw metal and metal ingots; the 'rush' meaning is a borrowed sound use.

phonetic

廷 tíng

court

Carries the sound: 廷 gives both the tǐng and dìng readings, the same phonetic seen in 挺 and 艇.

铤 dìng