This logogram is of ideographic origin and it was designed to evoke:

A mold that holds 容 hot metal 钅; 容 also provides the pronunciation

  • 镕 mold; to fuse, to melt, to smelt róng
    • 钅 gold, metal; money jīn
    • 容 appearance, looks; form, figure; to contain, to hold róng
      • 宀 roof; house mián
      • 谷 valley, gorge, ravine gǔ
        • 八 eight; all around, all sides bā

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