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CHINESE CHARACTER
- Numbered pinyin
- zuan1
- English meanings
- an auger, diamond, to drill, to bore, to get into, to make one's way into, to enter (a hole), to thread one's way through, to study intensively, to dig into, to curry favor for personal gain
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BUILDING BLOCKS
Structure & components
Left–right structure
Left–right arrangement: left 钅; right 占.
Meaning & sound clues
钅 is identified as the meaning component, associated with “metal”.
占 is identified as the sound component (zhàn). Its pronunciation may differ from the modern pronunciation of 钻.
This breakdown describes the written shape. A component's meaning does not always explain the meaning of the whole character.
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- 钻石
- 钻研
- 钻空子