Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- záo
English
- chisel
- (bound form) chisel
- bore, pierce
- to bore a hole; to chisel; to dig
- (literary) certain; authentic; irrefutable
- also pr. [zuo4]
- chisel
粵語
- 用嚟鑿開其他物料嘅工具（量詞：個）
Variants
Words containing 鑿
- 確鑿kok3 zok6
definite
- 鑿大zok6 daai6
to exaggerate; to make a hole bigger
- 鑿子zok6 zi2
chisel
- 鑿空zok6 hung1
to open an aperture
- 鑿岩zok6 ngaam4
(rock) drilling
- 鑿井zok6 zeng2
to dig a well
- 開鑿hoi1 zok6
to cut (a canal, tunnel, well etc)
- 言之鑿鑿jin4 zi1 zok6 zok6
(idiom) to speak with conviction
- 言之鑿鑿jin4 zi1 zok6 zok6
(idiom) to speak with conviction
- 榫鑿seon2 zok6
mortise chisel
- 雷公鑿leoi4 gung1 zok6
a kind of smoked sausage made from pig liver and fat pork ----
- 枘鑿jeoi6 zok6
incompatible (abbr. for 方枘圓鑿|方枘圆凿[fang1 rui4 yuan2 zao2])
- 穿鑿cyun1 zok6
to bore a hole
- 鑿沉zok6 cam4
to scuttle (a ship)
- 鑿岩機zok6 ngaam4 gei1
rock drill
- 穿鑿附會cyun1 zok6 fu6 wui6
(idiom) to make far-fetched claims; to offer outlandish explanations
- 鑿壁偷光zok6 bik1 tau1 gwong1
lit. to pierce the wall to steal a light (idiom)
- 確鑿不移kok3 zok6 bat1 ji4
established and irrefutable (idiom)
- 鑿枘zok6 jeoi6
see 枘鑿|枘凿[rui4 zao2]
- 鑿石場zok6 sek6 coeng4
rock quarry
- 實鼓實鑿sat6 gu2 sat6 zok6
for real
- 證據確鑿zing3 geoi3 kok3 zok6
- 實斧實鑿sat6 fu2 sat6 zok6
promised; for real
- 妄生穿鑿mong5 sang1 cyun1 zok6
a forced analogy (idiom); to jump to an unwarranted conclusion