槌 (chuí): mallet, pestle, beetle (for wedging or ramming)
槌 (chuí) is a Chinese character meaning “mallet.” Outside the HSK 3.0 syllabus (CLEC 2022), it is composed of 木 (semantic) and 追 (phonetic). It ranks #3301 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 槌 wood. Its radical form 木 (tree) appears in many related characters such as 木 (mù, wood/tree), 林 (lín, forest, woods), 森 (sēn, forest (dense)).
Definitions
- mallet
- pestle
- beetle (for wedging or ramming)
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 棒槌noun | bàng chuí | wooden club (used to beat clothes in washing) |
| 一槌定音 | yī chuí dìng yīn | variant of 一錘定音|一锤定音 |
| 小槌noun | xiǎo chuí | mallet |
| 法槌noun | fǎ chuí | gavel |
| 落槌 | luò chuí | (of an auctioneer) to bring down the gavel |
| 槌球noun | chuí qiú | croquet |
| 沙槌noun | shā chuí | variant of 沙錘|沙锤 |
| 碾槌 | niǎn chuí | pestle |
| 砂槌 | shā chuí | variant of 沙錘|沙锤 |
| 凸槌verb | tū chuí | (slang) (Tw) to mess up |
槌 appears in 10 compound words: 10 as the first character, 80 as the last, and 10 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Idioms & Chengyu (1)
Example Sentences
开演前,依力凡·吾买尔习惯性地拿起那对专属英歌槌。
kāi yǎn qián , yī lì fán wú mǎi ěr xí guàn xìng dì ná qǐ nà duì zhuān shǔ yīng gē chuí .
Before the performance began, Yilifan Wumaier habitually picked up his special pair of Yingge mallets.
数字越来越小,落槌声倒越来越响。
shǔ zì yuè lái yuè xiǎo , luò chuí shēng dǎo yuè lái yuè xiǎng .
The numbers are getting smaller and smaller, yet the sound of the gavel is getting louder and louder.
此后,长沙队攻势不减,张翔头槌脚踢,两分钟内连进两球,将比分扩大至4比0。
cǐ hòu , cháng shā duì gōng shì bù jiǎn , zhāng xiáng tóu chuí jiǎo tī , liǎng fēn zhōng nèi lián jìn liǎng qiú , jiāng bǐ fēn kuò dà zhì 4 bǐ 0 .
After that, the Changsha team kept up the pressure, with Zhang Xiang scoring twice in two minutes—once with a header and once with a shot—to extend the lead to 4–0.
Character Family
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