永不生銹的螺絲釘 yǒng bù shēng xiù de luó sī dīng

selfless loyal worker for the Party

Word data

HSK Not in HSK
Frequency Unknown

Definitions

  1. 1. a "screw that never rusts" — sb who selflessly and wholeheartedly serves the Communist Party, like Lei Feng léi fēng, to whom the metaphor is attributed

Characters

Character Meaning
forever; always; perpetual
not; no; (negative prefix)
life; to be born; raw
to rust; to corrode
(used after an attribute)
snail; spiral shell; conch
silk; thread; trace
nail; variant of dīng; to follow closely