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锤子chuí zi
hammer
Definitions
| Chinese > English | |
| 锤子 | |
| 1. Simplified form of 錘子 | |
| 錘子 | chuízi |
| 1. n. hammer | |
| 2. n. (dialectal Mandarin, vulgar) penis | |
| 3. pron. (chiefly Sichuanese vulgar) nothing; fuck all | |
| 有 錘子zi 用！ - It has fuck-all use. | |
| English > Chinese | |
| hammer | |
| 1. 锤 | |
| Components | |
| 锤 | |
| 1. Simplified form of 錘 | |
| 2. Variant of 鎚 | |
| 錘 | chuí |
| 1. hammer | |
| 2. mace (weapon) | |
| 3. (literally, figuratively) to hammer into shape; to forge | |
| 4. (Mainland, neologism, slang) proof | |
| 5. (historical) (an ancient unit of weight) | |
| Chui | |
| 鎚 | |
| 1. Variant of 錘 | |
| 子 | zǐ |
| 1. (literary) child; offspring | |
| 2. son | |
| 獨生子 - dúshēngzǐ - only son | |
| 愛子 - àizǐ - beloved son | |
| 一 子 一 女 - yī zǐ yī nǚ - one son and one daughter | |
| 3. (literary) descendant; posterity | |
| 4. (Christianity) the Son | |
| 5. (in compounds) person | |
| 女子 (nǚzǐ) - female; woman | |
| 6. (literary) master; teacher | |
| 7. (literary) A respectful title for teachers, usually attached after their surnames. | |
| 孔子 (Kǒngzǐ) - Master Kong (Confucius) | |
| 老子 (Lǎozǐ) - Laozi | |
| 8. (literary, polite) you | |
| 9. Alternative form of 籽 (seed); also its second-round simplified form. | |
| 葵花子 (kuíhuāzǐ) - sunflower seed | |
| 10. egg | |
| 魚子 (yúzǐ) - caviar | |
| 11. young; tender; small | |
| 12. Prefix attached to nouns, denoting "a part of", "belonging to" or "individual". sub- | |
| 子目錄 (zǐmùlù) - subdirectory | |
| 13. (astrology) First earthly branch: rat in the Chinese zodiac, 11th solar month, midnight (11:00 pm to 1:00 am) | |
| 14. (historical) viscount (fourth of five ranks of Chinese aristocracy under the Zhou dynasty) | |
| 15. (physics, biology) -on | |
| 16. (Min Nan) grain-like object; particle; granule | |
| 17. (Min Nan, music) rhythm | |
| 18. (Min Nan) | |
| 19. Suffix: | |
| 20. Used to nominalize. | |
| 21. 瓶子zi - píngzi - bottle | |
| 22. 刷子zi - shuāzi - brush | |
| 23. 胖子zi - pàngzi - fat person | |
| 24. (colloquial) Used in some classifiers. | |
| 25. 一下子zi - yīxiàzi - all of a sudden | |
| 26. small, round object | |
| 算盤子jí (sǹg-pôaⁿ-jí) - abacus bead, MN | |
| 27. (Xiamen, Quanzhou) | |
| 28. (Zhangzhou, Taiwan) | |
Pronunciation
chuí zi
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