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Chinese symbol for “splints”

碎钻
suì zuàn
Traditional: 碎鑽
small diamonds; melee (small diamonds used in embellishing mountings for larger gems); splints (sharp-pointed diamond splinters); clatersal (small diamond splints from which diamond powder is produced by crushing)

The closest CC-CEDICT match for splints is 碎钻 (suì zuàn), defined as: small diamonds; melee (small diamonds used in embellishing mountings for larger gems); splints (sharp-pointed diamond splinters); clatersal (small diamond splints from which diamond powder is produced by crushing).

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Characters and stroke order

碎 suì
to break, to smash; broken, busted
radical 112 ⽯ · 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 碎钻.

WordPinyinMeaning
碎片suì piànchip; fragment; splinter; tatter
粉碎fěn suìto crush; to smash; to shatter
破碎pò suìto smash to pieces; to shatter
心碎xīn suìheartbroken; extreme depth of sorrow
支离破碎 (支離破碎)zhī lí pò suìscattered and smashed (idiom)
碎石suì shígravel; crushed rock; rock debris
钻石 (鑽石)zuàn shídiamond; 颗 (kē)
钻研 (鑽研)zuān yánto study meticulously; to delve into

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.