锹
鍬qiāo
#4,126 most
frequent character
shovel, spade
Character breakdown
Source: Make Me a Hanzi.
锹 has 钅 metal as its meaning part and 秋 qiū for sound. It first meant a farming tool for digging. This grew to shovel or spade.
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