鑽
zuànzuān HSK6

drill

钻 鑽 zuàn frequency
variant 鑚
diamond noun
a diamond; a jewel used in a watch or machinery
drill
a tool used for drilling or boring, such as an auger or power drill
surname
a Chinese surname
钻 鑽 zuān
variant 鑚
to enter verb
to make one's way into; to go through or under a narrow space; to thread through

一条70磅重的章鱼能从一个一美元硬币大小的孔中钻过去。

yī tiáo70 bàng zhòng de zhāng​yú néng cóng yī​ge yī měi​yuán yìng​bì dà​xiǎo de kǒng zhōng zuān guò​qù.

A 70-pound octopus can squeeze through a hole as small as a dollar coin.

to drill verb
to drill or bore a hole by rotating a pointed tool

那口井他们已经钻了一年多了。

nà kǒu jǐng tā​men yǐ​jing zuān le yī nián duō le.

They have been drilling that well for more than a year.

to study intensively
to dig into a subject; to study or research deeply; to devote oneself to a specialty
to curry favor
to seek personal gain through social maneuvering or by finding loopholes; to curry favor with people in power

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Frequency
Character
Written text
1,724th most common 52.0 per million
Movie subtitles
1,399th most common 50.7 per million appears in 15% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
21.3 per million appears in 7% of films
Written text
27.6 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 6
Simplified
钻𰿆
Strokes
26
Unicode
U+947D

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)