锯 鋸
锯鋸 in English
- to mend by stapling or cramping broken pieces together / variant of 鋦|锔[ju1]
- a saw (CL:把[ba3]) / to saw
Measure word
- 把 bǎ to hold; to grasp; to hold a baby in position to help it urinate or defecate; handlebar; classifier: handful, bundle... attested
How it used to be written
These are the forms of 鋸, the traditional character: 锯 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 戰國晚期.燕 -
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).