zuān​suì

to drill wood to start a fire

  • created sense approved 钻燧/鑽燧 · zuān​suì · to drill wood to start a fire — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    钻燧 / 鑽燧

    zuān​suì

    to drill wood to start a fire

    (literary) to drill wood for fire; refers to primitive methods of fire-making

    钻 (literal) → 钻/鑽 · zuān · to drill 燧 (literal) → 燧 · suì · fire-starting tool

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense