钳鉗

钳鉗 in English

qián: pincers / pliers / tongs / claw (of animal) / to grasp with pincers / to pinch / to clamp / to restrain / to restrict / to gag

How it used to be written

These are the forms of 鉗, the traditional character: 钳 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

Small seal script
Clerical script 東漢
See all 4 forms

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

把钳子放在工具箱里。

Put the pliers in the tool box.

All example sentences with 钳

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