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Chinese symbol for “corkscrew”

瓶塞钻
píng sāi zuàn
Traditional: 瓶塞鑽
corkscrew

The closest CC-CEDICT match for corkscrew is 瓶塞钻 (píng sāi zuàn), defined as: corkscrew.

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Characters and stroke order

瓶 píng
bottle, jug, pitcher, vase
radical 98 ⽡ · 10 strokes
塞 sāi
to stop up, to seal, to cork, to block; pass, frontier; fortress
radical 32 ⼟ · 13 strokes
钻 zuàn
diamond; to bore, to drill, to pierce
radical 167 ⾦ · 10 strokes

Traditional forms

Related words

Other words that share a character with 瓶塞钻.

WordPinyinMeaning
瓶子píng zibottle; 个 (gè)
瓶颈 (瓶頸)píng jǐngneck of a bottle; (fig.) bottleneck
花瓶huā píngflower vase; (fig.) female employee considered to be just a pretty face (attractive but not very competent)
瓶装 (瓶裝)píng zhuāngbottled
奶瓶nǎi píngbaby's feeding bottle
瓶盖 (瓶蓋)píng gàibottle cap
堵塞dǔ sèto clog up; blockage
活塞huó sāipiston
钻石 (鑽石)zuàn shídiamond; 颗 (kē)

See also: Japanese symbol for “corkscrew”.

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.