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charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *刺* | 刺* | *刺
thorn / sting / thrust / to prick / to pierce / to stab / to assassinate / to murder
HSK 4
to satirize / to mock / irony / satire / sarcasm
HSK 7-9
(sports) to sprint; to spurt; to dash / to put in a big effort to achieve a goal as the deadline approaches
HSK 7-9
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *刺* | 刺* | *刺
(onom.) whoosh
(medicine) to puncture; to do a needle biopsy
to prick with a needle / to treat by acupuncture
thorny / (fig.) barbed; sarcastic
spur (on riding boots)
barb / whiskers
spur / bony outgrowth
barb / barbed tip (e.g. of fishhook)
venomous sting
to assassinate
fishbone
pimple / comedo / blackhead / acne
to carp / nitpicking / petty criticism
to be attacked by an assassin
a thorn in one's flesh
bayonet
to ridicule / to mock
bayonet charge
visiting card / name card
bayonet practice in pairs
to tattoo
to stab / to hack
to plot to assassinate
amniocentesis
to pick out the bones in a fish
amniocentesis (used in Taiwan)
to find fault / to carp / nitpicking
to backstab
horse spur
talk nicely and avoid disputes / give compliments and not remarks
to stab from hiding
a thorn in one's eye / fig. a thorn in one's flesh
a thorn in one's side
one's words carry barbs / one's remarks are sarcastic
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