钻 鑽
钻鑽 in English
- to drill / to bore / to get into / to make one's way into / to enter (a hole) / to thread one's way through / to study intensively / to dig into / to curry favor for personal gain
How it used to be written
These are the forms of 鑽, the traditional character: 钻 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 3 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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那不是一颗真正的钻石，对吗？
That's not a real diamond, is it?
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钻石是一种宝石。
The diamond is a precious stone.
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钻石被镶在一个金戒指上。
The diamond was set in a gold ring.