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


Tip: Pinyin can be entered with or without tone numbers, e.g. 'nihao' or 'ni3hao3'.
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