穿

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

穿 = + : 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 character breakdown

tooth / ivory / CL:顆|颗[ke1]

Mnemonic symbol: wisdom tooth. Maud Younger has a wisdom tooth removed just inside the ashram's kitchen.
cave / cavity / hole / acupuncture point / Taiwan pr. [xue4]

= + : Xu Xian presents his newest piece of art: Cave paintings painted on a gigantic eight-ball. Somehow he managed to set it up inside the elevators entrance. For his great artistic achievement, he gained a honorary doctor, and proudly wears his hard earned graduation cap.

Characters with 穿 as component

(jade)

Words with 穿

to try wearing clothes / fitting trial
to run through / a connecting thread from beginning to end / to link
to wear (a garment)
pangolin (Manis pentadactylata) / scaly ant-eater
durable / proof against wear and tear
lit. like tofu strung on horsetail, you can't lift it / fig. let's not talk of this (pun on 提[ti2])
amniocentesis (used in Taiwan)
lit. face thirst and dig a well (idiom); fig. not to make adequate provision / to act when it is too late
lit. to have one's heart pierced by thousands of arrows (idiom) / fig. overcome with sorrow / to lambaste / to rip sb to shreds

Sentences with 穿

zhè
shì
gua̅n
fú
 
 
bù
kě
bù
穿
chua̅n