钻 — Chinese character
钻
zuān
diamond; to bore, to drill, to pierce
- Pinyin
- zuān
- Radical
- 167 ⾦ (Gold)
- Strokes
- 10
- Components
- 钅 占
- Formation
- pictophonetic — metal; meaning component 钅; sound component 占
- Traditional
- 鑽
Common words with 钻
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 钻石 (鑽石) | zuàn shí | diamond; 颗 (kē) |
| 钻研 (鑽研) | zuān yán | to study meticulously; to delve into |
| 钻进 (鑽進) | zuān jìn | to get into; to dig into (studies, job etc) |
| 钻探 (鑽探) | zuān tàn | to conduct exploratory drilling |
| 钻井 (鑽井) | zuān jǐng | to drill (e.g. for oil); a borehole |
| 钻戒 (鑽戒) | zuàn jiè | diamond ring; 只 (zhī) |
| 钻头 (鑽頭) | zuàn tóu | drill bit |
| 钻孔 (鑽孔) | zuān kǒng | to bore a hole; to drill |
| 钻机 (鑽機) | zuàn jī | drilling machine |
| 钻牛角尖 (鑽牛角尖) | zuān niú jiǎo jiān | lit. to penetrate into a bull's horn (idiom); fig. to waste time on an insoluble or insignificant problem; to bash one's head against a brick wall |
| 电钻 (電鑽) | diàn zuàn | electric drill |
| 金刚钻 (金剛鑽) | jīn gāng zuàn | a diamond |
English words written with 钻
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.