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


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