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一针见血

yī zhēn jiàn xiě

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 4-character word Traditional 一針見血

一针见血 (yī zhēn jiàn xiě) means "lit. to draw blood on the first prick (idiom); fig. to hit the nail on the head". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 一针见血 means

1. lit. to draw blood on the first prick (idiom)
2. fig. to hit the nail on the head

The characters in 一针见血

• 一yīone; single; a (article)
• 针zhēnneedle; pin; injection
• 见jiànto see; to meet; to appear (to be sth)
• 血xuèblood; colloquial pr. xiě

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