Entry
永yǒng不bù生shēng锈xiù的de螺luó丝sī钉dīng

  1. a "screw that never rusts" – metaphor used in CCP propaganda to praise loyal, selfless contributors, famously applied to model worker Lei Feng 雷鋒|雷锋[Lei2 Feng1]

    trad. 永不生鏽的螺絲釘

Also written 永不生鏽的螺絲釘【yǒng bù shēng xiù de luó sī dīng】

Characters in this word

8
生
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to grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born, to arise; to occur, to light (a fire), to live; to be alive, life, raw; uncooked; unprocessed, unfamiliar; strange, (bound form) student; person engaged in a field, (bound form) male role in traditional opera, (bound form) life; lifetime, (bound form) means of livelihood, (bound form) very; intensely (as in 生疼[sheng1 teng2]), (bound form) in a forced manner (as in 生拉硬拽[sheng1 la1 ying4 zhuai4])

Pinyin
shēng
Strokes
5
Frequency
1196 of 2500
Words starting with 生Words ending in 生Anywhere in a word
的
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of; ~'s (possessive particle), (used after an attribute when it modifies a noun), (used at the end of a declarative sentence for emphasis), (used after a noun, verb or adjective to form a nominal expression, as in 皮革的[pi2 ge2 de5] "one made of leather" or 跑堂兒的|跑堂儿的[pao3 tang2 r5 de5] "a waiter (literally, one who runs back and forth in a restaurant)" or 新的[xin1 de5] "new one"), also pr. [di4] or [di5] in poetry and songs

Pinyin
de
Strokes
8
Frequency
1 of 2500
Words starting with 的Words ending in 的Anywhere in a word