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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 | |
Pronunciation
zhǐ jiǎ cuò dāo
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