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Trad. 鑽
- to drill
- to bore
- to get into
- to make one's way into
- to enter (a hole)
- to thread one's way through
- to study intensively
- to dig into
- to curry favor for personal gain
Trad. 碎鑽
- small diamonds
- melee (small diamonds used in embellishing mountings for larger gems)
- splints (sharp-pointed diamond splinters)
- clatersal (small diamond splints from which diamond powder is produced by crushing)
Trad. 鑽心
- to sneak in
- to infiltrate
- to be piercingly painful
- to be unbearable (of pain, itch etc)
Trad. 鑽營
- toadying for personal gain
- to curry favor
- to study in great depth
Trad. 鑽謀
- to use influence to get what one wants
- to find a way through (esp. corrupt)
- to succeed by means fair or foul
Trad. 鑽心蟲
- boring insect
- snout moth's larva (Aphomia gullaris or Plodia interpuncuella or Heliothus armigera etc), major agricultural pest
Trad. 鑽桌子
- to crawl under a table (e.g. as a forfeit for losing a bet or card game); to hide under a table
Trad. 鑽牛角
- lit. honing a bull's horn; fig. to waste time on an insoluble or insignificant problem
- to bash one's head against a brick wall
- a wild goose chase
- a blind alley
- to split hairs
- same as idiom 鑽牛角尖|钻牛角尖
Trad. 鑽空子
- to take advantage of a loophole; to exploit an advantage; to seize the opportunity (esp. to do sth bad)
Trad. 萬頭鑽動
- (Tw) see 萬頭攢動|万头攒动[wan4 tou2 cuan2 dong4]
Trad. 無孔不鑽
- lit. leave no hole undrilled (idiom); to latch on to every opportunity
Trad. 見縫就鑽
- lit. to squeeze into every crack (idiom)
- fig. to make the most of every opportunity
Trad. 鑽堅仰高
- lit. looking up to it, it gets higher; boring into it, it gets harder (idiom) (from Analects)
- fig. to delve deeply into one's studies
- meticulous and diligent study
Trad. 鑽故紙堆
- to dig into piles of outdated writings (idiom); to study old books and papers
Trad. 鑽牛角尖
- lit. to penetrate into a bull's horn (idiom); fig. to waste time on an insoluble or insignificant problem
- to bash one's head against a brick wall
- a wild goose chase
- a blind alley
- to split hairs
Trad. 鑽石王老五
- highly eligible bachelor
- desirable male partner