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


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