U+9524 "锤" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9524 "锤" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "hammer" as a noun or "to hammer" as a verb, commonly used in contexts related to tools, striking, and metalworking. It belongs to the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) unified ideographs block, which encodes shared logographic characters across these languages, and carries the same general meaning in both modern and classical Chinese texts. In Japanese, it is used in compounds like 金槌 (kanazuchi, meaning "metal hammer") and appears in vocabulary related to construction and craft. Its form combines the radical 钅 (金, meaning metal or gold) on the left with the phonetic component 垂 (meaning to hang or droop), giving it both semantic and phonetic cues. This character is widely recognized in East Asia for its practical and metaphorical applications, such as in the phrase 千锤百炼, which describes repeated refinement and discipline through hammering and tempering.