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永不生锈的螺丝钉

yǒng bù shēng xiù de luó sī dīng

8-character word Traditional 永不生鏽的螺絲釘

What 永不生锈的螺丝钉 means

1. a "screw that never rusts" – metaphor used in CCP propaganda to praise loyal, selfless contributors, famously applied to model worker Lei Feng {雷锋|Léi Fēng}

The characters in 永不生锈的螺丝钉

• 永yǒngforever; always; perpetual
• 不bùno; not so; (bound form) not; un-
• 生shēngto grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born; to arise; to occur; to light (a fire)
• 锈xiùto rust
• 的deof; ~'s (possessive particle); (used after an attribute when it modifies a noun)…
• 螺luóspiral shell; snail; conch
• 丝sīsilk; thread-like thing; (cuisine) shreds or julienne strips…
• 钉dīngnail; to follow closely; to keep at sb (to do sth)