duàn
verb #34,699

Meanings

  1. 1 to forge
  2. 2 to temper

Examples

Duànliàn
to exercise; to work out
Duànzào
to forge (metal)

Tips

history
锻炼 originally meant forging metal, now commonly means 'to exercise'

Components

radical
jīn
metal (radical form of 金)
Left metal radical — five-stroke side-form of . As the indexing radical it carries the literal meaning: forging is hammering and tempering metal. Same radical places with hammer, steel, to cast, sharp edge, iron — the entire smithy belongs to this family.
phonetic
duàn
section; to break (here phonetic)
Right supplies the full sound — duàn read identically in the parent. Strong semantic boost too: itself depicts a hand striking stone or metal with a tool, the very action of forging. The 'phonetic' here doubles as near-semantic — unusually well-matched.

Stroke Order

duàn