1. Anvil is a Chinese character, pronounced as zhēn. Its original meaning is a stone for pounding clothes. Its extended meaning is a torture instrument used in ancient times to behead or cut in half. Prisoners lay on it to be tortured. The role of anvil in modern industry is The extended meaning is generally the meaning of base and benchmark.

2. Phrases

(1) Chopping board: zhēnbǎn

An instrument that is placed underneath when beating, smashing or cutting things.

(2) Incus: zhēngǔ

The middle one of the three small bone chains in the mammalian ear.

(3) Anvil stand: zhēnjià

A bracket on which the wooden block of the anvil is fixed or the bracket of the anvil itself.

(4) Rootstock: zhēnmù

The plant that bears the scion when the plant is grafted, such as grafting jujube on jujube, and jujube is the rootstock.

(5) Anvil, anvil zhēntái, zhēnzuò

A machine part used to place metal on it for forging and forming, the anvil of a motorized hammer.

(6) Anvil: tiezhen

A base for forging and hammering metal, most of which have protrusions at both ends.