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to provoke; to irritate; to upset; to stimulate; to excite / irritant
HSK 4
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *刺* | 刺* | *刺
thorn / sting / thrust / to prick / to pierce / to stab / to assassinate / to murder
HSK 4
piercing / cutting / bone-chilling / penetrating (cold)
HSK 7-9
ear-piercing
HSK 7-9
bayonet charge
to embroider / embroidery
HSK 7-9
stimulus
to satirize / to mock / irony / satire / sarcasm
HSK 7-9
hedgehog
sashimi
bayonet
to tingle; to sting; to have a sudden sharp pain; (fig.) to hurt deeply / tingle; prick; sting; stab of pain
provincial governor (old)
to hit with a piercing blow
barb / whiskers
to pry into / to spy on / to probe into
to carp / nitpicking / petty criticism
troublesome person; difficult person to deal with
prickly amaranth (Amaranthus spinosus)
(immunology) costimulation / costimulatory
to dazzle / to offend the eyes / dazzling / harsh (light) / crude (colors) / unsightly
to puncture / to pierce
(sports) to sprint; to spurt; to dash / to put in a big effort to achieve a goal as the deadline approaches
HSK 7-9
to assail the nostrils / acrid / pungent
to study assiduously and tirelessly (idiom) / see also 頭懸梁錐刺股|头悬梁锥刺股
to assassinate / (military) to fight with a bayonet / (baseball) to put out (a baserunner)
feeling brambles and thorns in one's back (idiom) / uneasy and nervous / to be on pins and needles
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *刺* | 刺* | *刺
(onom.) whoosh
barb / barbed tip (e.g. of fishhook)
visiting card / name card
bayonet charge
king trumpet mushroom (Pleurotus eryngii)
assassin
to stab; to pierce
thrilling / exciting / stimulating / irritating / provocative / pungent / spicy
to backstab
to tattoo
chestnut rose fruit (hip of Rosa roxburghii), used in TCM
barbed wire
to skewer / to impale / to pierce through
bayonet practice in pairs
thorny / (fig.) barbed; sarcastic
(medicine) to puncture; to do a needle biopsy
a thorn in one's flesh
manyprickle (Acanthopanax senticosus), root used in TCM
irritant agent
see 刺激
spur (on riding boots)
biting words / stinging words
to tattoo / a tattoo
to be attacked by an assassin
gaudy / glaring / unpleasant to the eyes
to find fault
one's words carry barbs / one's remarks are sarcastic
Cnidaria (animal phylum including jellyfish and sessile polyps)
venomous sting
a thorn in one's eye / fig. a thorn in one's flesh
to tattoo
razor wire
pimple / comedo / blackhead / acne
false acacia / Robinia pseudoacacia
to stab to death
gooseberry
to stab from hiding
cnidocyte / nettle cell of medusa or anemone
cnidocyte / nettle cell of medusa
embroidery
talk nicely and avoid disputes / give compliments and not remarks
bayonet
acupuncture anesthesia
to stab
to tattoo / tattoo
a thorn in one's side
amniocentesis (used in Taiwan)
amniocentesis
to talk incessantly / to chatter on and on
Indian coral tree / sunshine tree / tiger's claw / Erythrina variegata (botany)
pins and needles (in muscle) / paresthesia
to plot to assassinate
to pick out the bones in a fish
sea holly (Eryngium maritimum)
Acanthorhodeus chankaensis (small carp)
to ridicule / to mock
spur / bony outgrowth
nematocyst / capsule of nettle cells of medusa or anemone
to assassinate
(onom.) sound of quick movement / Taiwan pr. [ci4leng2]
to find fault / to carp / nitpicking
amniocentesis
to tattoo
to prick with a needle / to treat by acupuncture
lung irritant
Cnidaria (animal phylum including jellyfish and sessile polyps)
lit. with his head attached to a beam and stabbing his thigh with an awl (idiom) / fig. to study assiduously and tirelessly
bone chilling wind (idiom)
Chinese juniper
to stab / to hack
horse spur
Acanthorhodeus tonkinensis Vaillant (small carp)

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