Keyword
to pierce
- to drill
- to dress
- to wear
- Frequency
- #841
- Strokes
- 9
Readings
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Mnemonic
牙 (tooth) gives the meaning and 穴 the sound.
Stroke order
Composed of
Used in vocabulary
穿
to bore through; to pierce; to perforate; to go through (e.g. a tunnel); to cross (e.g. a street); to thread; to string together; to wear; to put on (clothes, shoes etc.); verb complement indicating thoroughness or completion
穿着
attire; clothes; dress
穿越
to traverse; to pass through; to cross
穿过
to pass through
贯穿
to run through; a connecting thread from beginning to end; to link
身穿
to wear (a garment)
穿梭
to shuttle back and forth
穿戴
to dress; to be dressed; clothing; apparel
穿透
to penetrate
揭穿
to expose; to uncover
穿衣
to put on clothes; to get dressed
穿插
to insert; to take turns, alternate; to interweave; to interlace; subplot; interlude; episode; (military) to thrust deep into the enemy forces
穿孔
to punch a hole; to perforate; (medicine) perforation
刺穿
to skewer; to impale; to pierce through
拆穿
to expose; to unmask; to see through (a lie etc)
穿刺
(medicine) to puncture; to do a needle biopsy
穿行
to go through; to pass through; to thread one's way through
横穿
to cross; to traverse
穿山甲
pangolin (Manis pentadactylata); scaly ant-eater
试穿
to try wearing clothes; fitting trial
穿越时空
to travel through time
戳穿
to puncture; to lay bear or expose (lies etc)
穿针引线
lit. to thread a needle (idiom); fig. to act as a go-between
穿帮
(TV or movie) blooper; continuity error; (theater) to flub one's lines; unintended exposure of a body part; to be exposed (of a scheme or trick); to reveal sth one intended to conceal through a slip of the tongue; to blow one's cover