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指甲锉刀zhǐ jiǎ cuò dāo
nail file
Definitions
Components | ||
指甲 | zhǐjia, zhǐjiǎ, zhījia | |
1. n. fingernail | ||
塗 指甲jia - to paint nails | ||
2. n. toenail | ||
锉刀 | ||
1. Simplified form of 銼刀 | ||
銼刀 | cuòdāo | |
1. n. file (hand tool) | ||
指 | zhǐ | |
1. finger | ||
手指 - finger | ||
2. to point; to point out; to aim | ||
指出 - to point out | ||
指 人 - to point at a person | ||
3. to indicate; to show; to demonstrate | ||
4. to refer to; to mean | ||
春天 指 的 是 冬天 後面 的 那個 季節。 - Spring refers to the season after winter. | ||
5. to rely on; to depend on | ||
6. to criticize; to rebuke | ||
7. to make one’s hair stand on end | ||
甲 | jiǎ | |
1. shell; carapace | ||
2. plate armor | ||
3. nail (plate at the end of fingers and toes) | ||
4. the first of the ten heavenly stems | ||
5. number one; first; A | ||
6. (pronoun for an unspecified or unknown person or thing) | ||
7. (Taiwan) unit of land (area) measure, equivalent to 2,934 1857 roughly 2.1 acres | ||
8. how is it that; how could | ||
9. (Taiwan) since; as | ||
10. (Min Nan) Alternative form of 佮 (kah, kap, t=and; with) | ||
11. (Min Nan) Alternative form of 共 (kā) | ||
12. (Taiwanese Mandarin) gay; homosexual | ||
锉 | ||
1. Simplified form of 銼 | ||
銼 | cuò | |
1. carpenter's file, file smooth | ||
刀 | dāo | |
1. knife; blade | ||
2. single-edged sword; cutlass | ||
3. (neologism, internet) to bargain; to negotiate on price | ||
4. (q-lite, only common among Tai people) | ||
刀 世-勛 - Dao Shixun | ||
5. (Mandarin, neologism, colloquial) dollar | ||
6. Variant of 刁 | ||
刁 | diāo | |
1. (literary, or in compounds) treacherous; crafty; deceitful | ||
2. (literary) to tempt | ||
3. (literary) unkind | ||
4. (literary) stammering | ||
5. (literary) picky about food | ||
6. (literary) to wring | ||
7. (literary) to inveigle | ||
8. (literary) ear of grains | ||
9. (literary) to make (time) | ||
10. Variant of 凋 | ||
11. Variant of 碉 | ||
12. Variant of 雕 | ||
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zhǐ jiǎ cuò dāo
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