冶

yě
#2,786 most
frequent character
to smelt, to cast, seductive in appearance

Character breakdown

Source: Make Me a Hanzi.

冶 pairs 冫, here metal plates, with 台 tái, a sound part whose link is no longer clear. Smelting metal was the first meaning, which grew to 'to smelt, cast'. The sense 'seductive' was borrowed for its sound alone.

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Homophones

HSK 2
也yě
also, too
野yě
open space, field, wild, uncultivated

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