in English

ancient musical intrument shaped as a bell / hoe / spade

How it used to be written

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

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

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