锥
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cone; awl; to bore
13 strokes
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How 锥 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
钅 (semantic, “metal”) + 隹 (phonetic, zhuī)
components: 钅 隹
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 隹
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 隹 (zhuī) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 隹 sound component | zhuī | short-tailed bird; sparrow |
| 维 | wéi | to preserve, to maintain, to hold together |
| 推 | tuī | to push; to expel; to drive; to decline |
| 准 | zhǔn | standard, accurate; to permit, to approve, to allow |
| 堆 | duī | crowd, heap, pile, mass; to pile up; measure word for things in piles or stacks |
| 淮 | huái | a river in Anhui province |
| 椎 | zhuī | spine, vertebra; hammer, mallet |
| 稚 | zhì | young, immature; childhood |
| 谁 | shéi | who? whom? whose? anyone? |
| 濯 | zhuó | to cleanse, to rinse, to wash out |
| 睢 | suī | to gaze at, to stare at; uninhibited |
| 帷 | wéi | curtain, screen, tent |
| 擢 | zhuó | to pull up, to raise; to select |
| 槜 | zuì | white plum |
| 骓 | zhuī | piebald horse |
| 碓 | duì | pestle |
| 萑 | huán | grass, hay, straw |
Words containing 锥
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 贫无立锥之地 | pín wú lì zhuī zhī dì | not even enough land to stand an awl (idiom); absolutely destitute |
| 非洲锥虫病 | Fēi zhōu zhuī chóng bìng | sleeping sickness; African trypanosomiasis |
| 三角锥 | sān jiǎo zhuī | triangular pyramid (math.) |
| 交通锥 | jiāo tōng zhuī | traffic cone; road cone |
| 大沙锥 | dà shā zhuī | (bird species of China) Swinhoe's snipe (Gallinago megala) |
| 林沙锥 | lín shā zhuī | (bird species of China) wood snipe (Gallinago nemoricola) |
| 针尾沙锥 | zhēn wěi shā zhuī | (bird species of China) pin-tailed snipe (Gallinago stenura) |
| 圆锥曲线 | yuán zhuī qū xiàn | conic section |
| 锥子脸 | zhuī zi liǎn | V-shaped face |
| 锥虫病 | zhuī chóng bìng | trypanosomiasis |
| 贫无立锥 | pín wú lì zhuī | not even enough land to stand an awl (idiom); absolutely destitute |
| 圆锥体 | yuán zhuī tǐ | cone |
| 头悬梁，锥刺股 | tóu xuán liáng , zhuī cì gǔ | lit. with his head attached to a beam and stabbing his thigh with an awl (idiom); fig. to … |
| 紫锥花 | zǐ zhuī huā | coneflower genus (Echinacea) |
| 圆锥形 | yuán zhuī xíng | conical; coniform |
| 锥子 | zhuī zi | awl; CL:把[ba3] |
| 澳南沙锥 | Ào nán shā zhuī | (bird species of China) Latham's snipe (Gallinago hardwickii) |
| 锥面 | zhuī miàn | cone |
| 光锥 | guāng zhuī | (physics) light cone |
| 锥台 | zhuī tái | (math.) frustum |