钻营
zuān yíng
Pinyin

Definition

钻营
 - 
zuān yíng
  1. toadying for personal gain
  2. to curry favor
  3. to study in great depth

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

营业
yíng yè
  1. 1 to do business
  2. 2 to trade
营造
yíng zào
  1. 1 to build (housing)
  2. 2 to construct
  3. 3 to make
营销
yíng xiāo
  1. 1 marketing
营养
yíng yǎng
  1. 1 nutrition
  2. 2 nourishment
  3. 3 CL:種|种[zhǒng]
经营
jīng yíng
  1. 1 to engage in (business etc)
  2. 2 to run
  3. 3 to operate
钻
zuān
  1. 1 to drill
  2. 2 to bore
  3. 3 to get into
  4. 4 to make one's way into
  5. 5 to enter (a hole)
  6. 6 to thread one's way through
  7. 7 to study intensively
  8. 8 to dig into
  9. 9 to curry favor for personal gain
钻戒
zuàn jiè
  1. 1 diamond ring
  2. 2 CL:隻|只[zhī]
钻石
zuàn shí
  1. 1 diamond
  2. 2 CL:顆|颗[kē]
兵营
bīng yíng
  1. 1 military camp
  2. 2 barracks
安营扎寨
ān yíng zhā zhài
  1. 1 to set up camp
  2. 2 Taiwan pr. [ān yíng zhá zhài]
专营
zhuān yíng
  1. 1 to specialize in (a particular product or service)
  2. 2 monopoly
东营
Dōng yíng
  1. 1 Dongying prefecture-level city in Shandong
民营
mín yíng
  1. 1 privately run (i.e. by a company, not the state)
营
yíng
  1. 1 camp
  2. 2 barracks
  3. 3 battalion
  4. 4 to build
  5. 5 to operate
  6. 6 to manage
  7. 7 to strive for
营口
Yíng kǒu
  1. 1 Yingkou prefecture level city in Liaoning province 遼寧省|辽宁省 in northeast China
营地
yíng dì
  1. 1 camp
营收
yíng shōu
  1. 1 sales
  2. 2 income
  3. 3 revenue
营救
yíng jiù
  1. 1 to rescue
营业员
yíng yè yuán
  1. 1 clerk
  2. 2 shop assistant
  3. 3 CL:個|个[gè]
营业额
yíng yè é
  1. 1 sum or volume of business
  2. 2 turnover

Idioms (11)

官私合营
guān sī hé yíng
  1. 1 public and private interests working together (idiom)
惨淡经营
cǎn dàn jīng yíng
  1. 1 to manage by painstaking effort (idiom)
敲钉钻脚
qiāo dīng zuān jiǎo
  1. 1 to make doubly sure (idiom)
无孔不钻
wú kǒng bù zuān
  1. 1 lit. leave no hole undrilled (idiom); to latch on to every opportunity
结党营私
jié dǎng yíng sī
  1. 1 to gang up for personal interest (idiom)
  2. 2 to form a clique
见缝就钻
jiàn fèng jiù zuān
  1. 1 lit. to squeeze into every crack (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to make the most of every opportunity
身在曹营心在汉
shēn zài Cáo yíng xīn zài Hàn
  1. 1 live in Cao camp but have the heart in Han camp (idiom)
  2. 2 to be somewhere while longing to be somewhere else
钻坚仰高
zuān jiān yǎng gāo
  1. 1 lit. looking up to it, it gets higher; boring into it, it gets harder (idiom) (from Analects)
  2. 2 fig. to delve deeply into one's studies
  3. 3 meticulous and diligent study
钻故纸堆
zuān gù zhǐ duī
  1. 1 to dig into piles of outdated writings (idiom); to study old books and papers
钻牛角
zuān niú jiǎo
  1. 1 lit. honing a bull's horn; fig. to waste time on an insoluble or insignificant problem
  2. 2 to bash one's head against a brick wall
  3. 3 a wild goose chase
  4. 4 a blind alley
  5. 5 to split hairs
  6. 6 same as idiom 鑽牛角尖|钻牛角尖
钻牛角尖
zuān niú jiǎo jiān
  1. 1 lit. to penetrate into a bull's horn (idiom); fig. to waste time on an insoluble or insignificant problem
  2. 2 to bash one's head against a brick wall
  3. 3 a wild goose chase
  4. 4 a blind alley
  5. 5 to split hairs

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