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螺丝钉

luó sī dīng

HSK 6 3-character word Traditional 螺絲釘

What 螺丝钉 means

1. screw

The characters in 螺丝钉

• 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)

Words containing 螺丝钉

• 永不生锈的螺丝钉yǒng bù shēng xiù de luó sī dīnga "screw that never rusts" – metaphor used in CCP propaganda to praise loyal, selfless…

Where 螺丝钉 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · lún–shuài (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read luó sī dīng correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.