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nail / snag / saboteur
HSK 7-9
head of nail
to meet with a rebuff
HSK 7-9
screw
screw
nail gun / stud gun
householder who refuses to vacate his home despite pressure from property developers
nail hammer / claw hammer
a "screw that never rusts" – metaphor used in CCP propaganda to praise loyal, selfless contributors, famously applied to model worker Lei Feng 雷鋒|雷锋
peg
claw hammer
claw hammer
that clinches it / that's final / no two ways about it
staple remover
tongue ring / tongue piercing
lit. to chop the nail and slice the iron (idiom) / fig. resolute and decisive; unhesitating; categorical
lit. a soft nail / fig. a tactful retort or rejection
to nail securely / to execute by means of impalement / to crucify
lit. a nail is a nail and a rivet is a rivet (idiom) / fig. meticulous / conscientious / unambiguous
to make doubly sure (idiom)
a thorn in one's side
stud earring
staple (stationery)
thumbtack
a thorn in one's side
DingTalk, business communication platform developed by Alibaba
cramp
nail gun; staple gun
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *釘* | 釘* | *釘
to join things together by fixing them in place at one or more points / to nail / to pin / to staple / to sew on
HSK 7-9
to clinch (a nail) / to nail down
stapler
to follow sb / to tail / to shadow / also written 盯梢
nose stud; nose piercing
spike
button magnet (to use on whiteboards, refrigerator doors etc)
tack / thumbtack / push pin
corner bracket (for securing the corner of a picture frame etc) / brad
rivet gun
Oncomelania
The Nine-Toothed Rake (weapon of Zhu Bajie 豬八戒|猪八戒)
stud (for decorating clothing, shoes, belts etc)
hexagon socket head cap screw
thumbtack
rake
rivet
rake
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *釘* | 釘* | *釘
nail / to follow closely / to keep at sb (to do sth) / variant of
variant of 補丁|补丁


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