Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- zhēn
English
- anvil
- anvil
- flat stone
As a component in
Variants
Words containing 砧
- 砧板zam1 baan2
cutting board; chopping block
- 角砧gok3 zam1
beck iron (corner of anvil)
- 砧木zam1 muk6
rootstock (stem onto which a branch is grafted)
- 砧骨zam1 gwat1
incus or anvil bone of middle ear, passing sound vibration from malleus hammer bone to stapes stirrup bone
- 鐵砧tit3 zam1
anvil
- 砧板蟻zam1 baan2 ngai2
glutton, relentless as ants scouring for sustenance at any cost ; literally: ants on the chopping board
- 肉隨砧板上juk6 ceoi4 zam1 baan2 soeng6
No choice but to allow others to manipulate and humiliate oneself
- 肉俎砧板上juk6 ceoi4 zam1 baan2 soeng6
(literally: flesh on the chopping board); to be forced into an undesirable action; to have no choice or way out; to have no choice but to allow others to manipulate and humiliate oneself
- 砧板圩zam1 baan2 heoi1