穿針引線

lit. to thread a needle (idiom); fig. to act as a go-between

Characters and words in 穿針引線

to wear / to put on / to dress / to bore through / to pierce / to perforate / to penetrate / to pass through / to thread

穿 = 牙 + 穴 : In front of the anthill, Chantal Chicken set up a huge wisdom tooth. She is piercing and drilling a lot of holes into it, which in turns she paints with cave paintings. All of it is part of her current art performance.

穿

chua̅n

针

針

zhe̅n

to thread a needle

针

針

zhe̅n = zh + (e)n1

needle / pin / injection / stitch / CL:根[gen1],支[zhi1]

针 = 十 + 钅 : James II of England (zh) found a huge cross made from a bone and a flute (十) with a golden harpoon (钅) sticking in the bone in front of the encampment ((e)n1). He wants to find out where it came from, so he uses a needle (针) to draw bone marrow from the bone to analyze its DNA, and it turns out that it once belonged to a white whale.

引

yǐn = y + (e)n3

to draw (e.g. a bow) / to pull / to stretch sth / to extend / to lengthen / to involve or implicate in / to attract / to lead / to guide / to leave / to provide evidence or justification for / old unit of distance equal to 10 丈[zhang4], one-thirtieth of a km or 33.33 meters

引 = 丨 + 弓 : In the encampment, Maud Younger draws her composite bow. She wants to shoot a dinosaur bone straight across the hall.

引

yǐn

线

線

xiàn

fuse (for an explosive device) / electrical lead / intermediary / catalyst / (dialect) sewing needle

线

線

xiàn = xi + an4

thread / string / wire / line / CL:條|条[tiao2],股[gu3],根[gen1] / (after a number) tier (unofficial ranking of a Chinese city)

线 = 戋 + 纟 : Mnemonic symbol: barbed wire.

线 = 戋 + 纟 : The silk worm wants to use the floating tank in the anthill's bathroom, but there's already Marie Curie inside—and she secured the tank by setting up barbed wire all around it.

Words with 穿針引線

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Sentences with 穿針引線

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