Meaning & readings
pointed, sharpness, edge, weapon, sharp, violent
Origin
The left component, 金, means metal and acts as a classifier telling you this kanji relates to metal objects or tools. The right component, 兌, serves as a sound hint indicating roughly how the character is pronounced — it doesn't contribute meaning on its own. Together, the character describes the quality of metal that has been worked into a sharp point or edge, capturing the idea of sharpness and the cutting force of a weapon. The pairing of "metal" with the sound element 兌 created a character perfectly suited to mean pointed or sharp.
AI-generated (claude-haiku-4-5), not yet reviewed. Formation type (automated guess): Phono-semantic (meaning + sound hint).
Components
- 金
- 兌
A sound hint component points at the character’s pronunciation, not its meaning — don’t read a meaning into it.
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 15
- Kangxi radical
- 167
- Grade
- Jōyō (secondary school)
- Frequency rank
- #1395 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 2
- Unicode
- U+092ED