砧 zhēn
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zhēn
noun
an anvil
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '砧' 3, p. 599; Mathews 1931 '砧', p. 39; Unihan '砧'; XHZD '砧', p. 967) -
zhēn
noun
a flat stone for washing clothes
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: As in 砧杵 board and wooden club (Guoyu '砧' n 1; Kroll 2015 '砧' 1, p. 599; Mathews 1931 '砧', p. 39; Unihan '砧') -
zhēn
noun
a chopping block
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: For chopping a person's head off as punishment, as in 砧鑕 (Guoyu '砧' n 3; Kroll 2015 '砧' 2, p. 599) -
zhēn
noun
a chopping board
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: For chopping vegetables; as in 砧板 (Guoyu '砧' n 2)
Contained in
- 砧木 rootstock (stem onto which a branch is grafted)
- 角砧 beck iron (corner of anvil)
- 砧杵 a board and a wooden batton for washing clothes
- 砧板 chopping board or block
- 砧鑕 a chopping block
- 钢砧(鋼砧) an anvil
- 铁砧(鐵砧) anvil
- 砧骨 incus; anvil bone
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 卷三十 Scroll 30 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 5
- 第四十四回 Chapter 44 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 2
- 第二回 Chapter 49 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 1
- 第二回 Chapter 78 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 1
- 卷上：一之源、二之具、三之造 First Scroll: 1. Origin, 2. Tools, 3. Making The Classic of Tea 茶經 — count: 1
- 第二回 Chapter 62 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 1
- 第二十九回 Chapter 29 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 1
- 卷四十三 志第十九 地理四 Volume 43 Treatises 19: Geography 4 History of Ming 明史 — count: 1
- 第十三回 Chapter 13 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 1
- 第四十七回 Chapter 47 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 1
Collocations
- 寒砧 (寒砧) 別院寒砧 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 第二十一回 Chapter 21 — count: 3
- 砧头 (砧頭) 砧頭 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 第二十九回 Chapter 29 — count: 3