凿 (鑿) záo

1. záo verb to bore; to pierce
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (CC-CEDICT '鑿'; Guoyu '鑿' v 1; Unihan '鑿')
2. záo noun a chisel
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Tools
   Notes: (CC-CEDICT '鑿'; Guoyu '鑿' n 2; Unihan '鑿')
3. záo noun a tool for making holes
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Guoyu '鑿' n 1)
4. záo verb to make a far-fetched interpretation
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Guoyu '鑿' v 2)
5. záo adjective indeed; truly
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (CC-CEDICT '鑿'; Guoyu '鑿' adj)

Contained in

• 凿石场(鑿石場) rock quarry
• 确凿不移(確鑿不移) established and irrefutable
• 确凿(確鑿) irrefutable
• 穿凿(穿鑿) to bore a hole/to give a forced interpretation
• 凿空(鑿空) to open an aperture; (extended meaning) to cut a way through; to open up a road
• 镌凿(鐫鑿) to chisel
• 凿井(鑿井) to dig a well
• 枘凿(枘鑿) incompatible
• 凿壁偷光(鑿壁偷光) to pierce the wall to steal a light; to study diligently in the face of hardship
• 开凿(開鑿) to cut
• 凿岩(鑿岩) (rock) drilling
• 凿沉(鑿沉) to scuttle (a ship)
• 凿枘(鑿枘) incompatible
• 妄生穿凿(妄生穿鑿) a forced analogy; to jump to an unwarranted conclusion
• 凿岩机(鑿岩機) rock drill
• 方枘圆凿(方枘圓鑿) to put a square peg in a round hole
• 穿凿附会(穿鑿附會) to make far-fetched claims; to offer outlandish explanations
• 凿子(鑿子) a chisel
• 榫凿(榫鑿) mortise chisel

Also contained in

习凿齿

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

• 卷八十七 志第六十三 河渠五 Volume 87 Treatises 63: Rivers and Canals 5 History of Ming 明史 — count: 25
• 卷十四 備城門 Book 14 - Fortification of the City Gate Mozi 墨子 — count: 16
• 卷八十二 列傳第五十二 陳壽 王長文 虞溥 司馬彪 王隱 虞預 孫盛 干寶 鄧粲 謝沈 習鑿齒 徐廣 Volume 82 Biographies 52: Chen Shou; Wang Changwen; Yu Pu; Sima Biao; Wang Yin; Yu Yu; Sun Sheng; Gan Bao; Deng Can; Xie Chen; Xi Zuochi; Xu Guang Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 15
• 卷八十五 志第六十一 河渠三 Volume 85 Treatises 61: Rivers and Canals 3 History of Ming 明史 — count: 13
• 卷六十六　志第十七下: 河渠三 Volume 66 Treatises 19: Rivers and Canals 3 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 11
• 卷八十八 志第六十四 河渠六 Volume 88 Treatises 64: Rivers and Canals 6 History of Ming 明史 — count: 11
• 卷五十三　　　　志第四十三　　食貨三 Volume 53 Treatises 49: Finance and Economics 3 New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 10
• 卷九十四 志第四十七 河渠四 Volume 94 Treatises 47: Rivers and Canals 4 History of Song 宋史 — count: 10
• 冬官考工記 第六 6. Office of Winter and Inspection Records Rites of Zhou 周禮 — count: 10
• 卷十四 備穴 Book 14 - Preparation against Tunnelling Mozi 墨子 — count: 10

Collocations

• 凿龙门 (鑿龍門) 禹鑿龍門 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷十八　人間訓 Chapter 18: The Human World — count: 7
• 凿度 (鑿度) 易干鑿度曰 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷四十下 班彪列傳 Volume 40b: Biography of Ban Biao 2 — count: 5
• 凿渠 (鑿渠) 鑿渠 — Mozi 墨子, 卷十四 備城門 Book 14 - Fortification of the City Gate — count: 5
• 干凿 (乾鑿) 易干鑿度曰 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷四十下 班彪列傳 Volume 40b: Biography of Ban Biao 2 — count: 5
• 凿地 (鑿地) 故不可以鑿地穿井 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷三　天文訓 Chapter 3: Celestial Phenomena — count: 5
• 一凿 (一鑿) 一鑿而繫繩 — Mozi 墨子, 卷十四 備城門 Book 14 - Fortification of the City Gate — count: 5
• 禹凿 (禹鑿) 禹鑿龍門 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷十八　人間訓 Chapter 18: The Human World — count: 5
• 凿齿 (鑿齒) 鑿齒民 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷四　墜形訓 Chapter 4: Terrestrial Forms — count: 4
• 五凿 (五鑿) 五鑿為正 — Xunzi 荀子, 哀公篇第三十一 Chapter 31: Duke Ai — count: 4
• 凿庙 (鑿廟) 鑿廟壖垣 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《袁盎鼂錯列傳》 Biographies of Yuan Ang and Chao Cuo — count: 4