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(dialect) stubborn; obstinate; inflexible
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *鑿* | 鑿* | *鑿
(bound form) chisel / to bore a hole; to chisel; to dig / (literary) certain; authentic; irrefutable / also pr. [zuo4]
HSK 7-9
lit. to pierce the wall to steal a light (idiom) / fig. to study diligently in the face of hardship
(rock) drilling
rock drill
rock quarry
to open an aperture / (extended meaning) to cut a way through / to open up a road
chisel
to scuttle (a ship)
to dig a well


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