钅

釒

jīnzìpáng

radical_variant

Meanings

1 metal on left radical, simplified (variant of 金)
2 left form of the metal radical, Kangxi #167

Tips

usage

钅 on the left flags metals, money, tools, and forged objects — one of the most reliable industrial cues in modern Chinese. It is the simplified left-position form of 金; traditional script still writes 釒. Never written alone; the standalone form is 金.

history

钅 came out of the 1956 simplification reform: the eight-stroke traditional left-side form 釒 — itself a positional variant of 金, originally a pictograph of metal nuggets under a roof — was cut to five strokes for faster handwriting. Traditional contexts still use 釒/金 in this slot.

usage

Metal/money cue: 钱 (money), 银 (silver), 铁 (iron), 钟 (bell/clock), 钢 (steel), 锁 (lock), 针 (needle), 锅 (pot).

Radical

Metal Kangxi #167

The metal radical. Originally a pictograph of nuggets covered with earth — gold mined from the ground, then generalized to all metals. Hugely productive; the simplified left-form 钅 heads almost every metal, tool, instrument, coin, and weapon: 钱, 银, 铁, 钢, 钟, 锁, 针, 锅, 镜, 锤. The 'industrial' radical of modern Chinese.

Forms

金 jīn

Default 8 characters

钅 jīnzìpáng

Left 148 characters

Used in

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错 cuò

wrong · mistaken

钱 qián

money

锁 suǒ

lock; padlock · to lock; to lock up

钟 zhōng

clock · bell

镇 zhèn

town; small city · to suppress; to put down

镜 jìng

mirror · lens

Stroke Order