斤 jīn, a pictographic character of an axe, serves as a semantic component to form characters. Characters formed by the semantic component 斤 have to do with axe-alike tools or something related to the use of such tools, e.g. 斥, 斧, 斩, 断, 斯, 斫, 新, etc.
斤 is mostly located on the right of the characters. You can verify this from the characters it formed below.
See also the component 戈, which is a pictographic character of a dagger-axe.
Characters formed by the semantic component 斤
| 笔划 | 汉字 | 拼音 | 笔划 | 汉字 | 拼音 |
| 4 | 斤 | jin,jīn | 5 | 斥 | chì |
| 8 | 斧 | fǔ | 8 | 斩 | zhǎn |
| 8 | 斨 | qiāng | 8 | 斦 | yín |
| 9 | 斫 | zhuó | 9 | 斪 | qú |
| 11 | 断 | duàn | 11 | 斬 | zhǎn |
| 12 | 斯 | sī | 12 | 斮 | zhuó |
| 12 | 斱 | zhuó | 13 | 新 | xīn |
| 14 | 斲 | zhuó | 15 | 斳 | qín |
| 16 | 斴 | lín | 17 | 斶 | chù |
| 17 | 斵 | zhuó | 18 | 斷 | duàn |
| 25 | 斸 | zhú |