DRILL 鑿
PIERCE so as to CAUSE something TO HAVE DEEP HOLES IN a SURFACE.
Old Chinese Criteria
2. Zuān 鑽 means to drill a wood with a drill. It was a method of making fire in a remote antiquity.
Modern Chinese Criteria
鑽進
扎 refers to pricking rather than drilling a hole into something.
rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH /
Words
穿 chuān OC: khjon MC: tɕhiɛn 6 AttributionsWD
Chuān 穿 refers to connecting the things by drilling the holes into these.
- Word relations
- Contrast: 鑿/DRILL
- Contrast: 貫 / 貫/PIERCE
Guàn 貫 is to make a hole in the middle of something so as to be able to string it up.
- Syntactic words
- nabactthe drilling of holes (in walls etc)
- nabcriminaldrilling holes (in a wall, as a thief)CH
- vtoNbore holes in, bore one's way into; pierce
- vtoNpassivebe pierced
鑽 zuàn OC: tsoons MC: tsʷɑn
鑽 zuān OC: tsoon MC: tsʷɑn 6 AttributionsWD
Zuān 鑽 means to drill a wood with a drill. It was a method of making fire in a remote antiquity. In nominal usage pronounced as zuàn
- Syntactic words
- nauger; a drill
- viactdo drilling
- vtoNdrill
- vtoNfigurativedrill into; pierce through
鑿 záo OC: dzaawɡ MC: dzɑk 3 AttributionsWD
- Word relations
- Contrast: 穿/DRILL
Chuān 穿 refers to connecting the things by drilling the holes into these.
- Syntactic words
- nabact.figurativetendency to drill uncongenially and unnaturally into the depths of hermeneutig problemsCH
- vtoNchisel holes in; perforate with a hole; create an opening in
- vtoNdrill out, remove with a drillCH
燧 suì OC: sɢluds MC: zi 2 AttributionsWD
Suì 燧 is originally a noun, and it is seldom used as a verb.
- Syntactic words
- vt[oN]drill fire
穿鑿 chuān záo OC: khjon dzaawɡ MC: tɕhiɛn dzɑk 2 AttributionsWD
- Syntactic words
- VPtoNdrill into, drill holes into
- VPtoNfigurativedrill into > shape up to; be formed into
穿過 chuān guò OC: khjon klools MC: tɕhiɛn kʷɑ 1 AttributionWD
- Syntactic words
- VPtoNpassivebe drilled through, be pierced through
擲 zhì OC: ɡ-leɡ MC: ɖiɛk 0 AttributionsWD
- Syntactic words
- vtoNmake hole in (a wall built of planks)
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