Are those real diamonds?
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钻
Traditional: 鑚 · 鑽
zuān
HSK 3.0 · 6
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zuàn · zyun1 (Jyutping)
zuān · zyun1 (Jyutping)
- 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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Character breakdown
钻
- Meaning
- drill, bore; pierce; diamond
- Radical
- 钅
- Strokes
- 10
- Components
- ⿰钅占
- Cangjie
- XCYR
- Four-corner
- 8176
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Example sentences
Tom said it was a diamond.
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