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Change log entry 70032
Processed by: goldyn_chyld (2020-07-08 06:45:46 GMT)
Comment: << review queue entry 66409 - submitted by 'richwarm' >>
1. 针毡 doesn't mean "uncomfortable situation". (That's the figurative meaning of 坐针毡, not 针毡.)

2. It's a noun, so it's not a stative verb ("on tenterhooks") either. (That's 如坐针毡.)

3. The "pincushion" sense is in K and HDC.

4. "needle felting"
a) Baike ~ 针毡是用动物或者其它纤维无水毡化成型的一种方法。利用特制带有倒刺的刺针戳在纤维上,经过不断的戳刺让羊毛互相产生摩擦,使内部纤维更好地纠结在一起,从而达到毡化,结合在一起形成毛毡。

b) "Needle felting is a method of creating felted objects without using water. The special needles used to make 3D sculpture, jewelry, adornments and 2D art have notches along the shaft of the needle that catch fibers and tangle them with other fibers to produce felt."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felt#Needle_felting

c) 令人难以置信的超现实的3D针毡猫咪肖像 (See the 3D image of a cat, made by needle felting.)
https://kknews.cc/zh-cn/culture/8olvzm4.html

d) Webpage about the artist who created those cats:
"It was in the spring of 2015 that I first discovered needle felting in a handicraft shop.At that moment I felt like making cats out of felted wool, because I lived with my deeply-beloved three ex-stray cats."
https://www.waku-neco.com/about-english
Diff:
# Minor format change: +(idiom)
- 如坐針氈 如坐针毡 [ru2 zuo4 zhen1 zhan1] /lit. as if sitting on pins and needles/fig. to be in an uncomfortable situation/
+ 如坐針氈 如坐针毡 [ru2 zuo4 zhen1 zhan1] /lit. as if sitting on pins and needles (idiom)/fig. to be in an uncomfortable situation/
#
- 針氈 针毡 [zhen1 zhan1] /(on) pins and needles/uncomfortable situation/on tenterhooks/
+ 針氈 针毡 [zhen1 zhan1] /needle felting (craft)/piece of felt used as a pincushion/
By MDBG 2024
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