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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *刺* | 刺* | *刺
thorn / sting / thrust / to prick / to pierce / to stab / to assassinate / to murder
HSK 4
bayonet charge
(sports) to sprint; to spurt; to dash / to put in a big effort to achieve a goal as the deadline approaches
HSK 7-9
barb / whiskers
to carp / nitpicking / petty criticism
thorny / (fig.) barbed; sarcastic
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *刺* | 刺* | *刺
(onom.) whoosh
barb / barbed tip (e.g. of fishhook)
visiting card / name card
to satirize / to mock / irony / satire / sarcasm
HSK 7-9
to backstab
one's words carry barbs / one's remarks are sarcastic
to prick with a needle / to treat by acupuncture
(medicine) to puncture; to do a needle biopsy
a thorn in one's flesh
to plot to assassinate
a thorn in one's side
to be attacked by an assassin
fishbone
venomous sting
a thorn in one's eye / fig. a thorn in one's flesh
pimple / comedo / blackhead / acne
to stab from hiding
to ridicule / to mock
talk nicely and avoid disputes / give compliments and not remarks
to stab / to hack
amniocentesis (used in Taiwan)
amniocentesis
horse spur
bayonet practice in pairs
spur (on riding boots)
spur / bony outgrowth
to assassinate
to find fault / to carp / nitpicking
to pick out the bones in a fish
bayonet
to tattoo
acne


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