钻木取火

to drill wood to make fire

fire / urgent / ammunition / fiery or flaming / internal heat (Chinese medicine) / hot (popular) / classifier for military units (old) / Kangxi radical 86

to take / to get / to choose / to fetch

(bound form) tree / (bound form) wood / unresponsive; numb; wooden

variant of 鑽|钻[zuan4]

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

an auger / diamond