a tall tree (archaic)/hammer/sound of wood beating against wood
Definitions (Wiktionary)
character
Used in compounds.
Definitions (Unihan)
betel-nut tree
Cangjie Input
DIIL
Examples (Tatoeba—Mandarin-English)
Mandarin
对工具箱里只有一把榔头的人来说,所有的问题都像钉子。
對工具箱裏只有一把榔頭的人來説,所有的問題都像釘子。
duì gōng jù xiāng lǐ zhǐ yǒu yī bǎ láng tou de rén lái shuō , suǒ yǒu de wèn tí dōu xiàng dīng zi 。
To the man who only has a hammer in the toolkit, every problem looks like a nail.
Examples (Wiktionary)
Mandarin
见到车子被儿子撞得稀烂,不但毫无苛责,许父甚至送槟榔、香烟给儿子“压惊”。
見到車子被兒子撞得稀爛,不但毫無苛責,許父甚至送檳榔、香煙給兒子“壓驚”。
jiàn dào chē zi bèi ér zi zhuàng de xī làn , bù dàn háo wú kē zé , xǔ fù shèn zhì sòng bīn láng , xiāng yān gěi ér zi “ yā jīng ” .
Seeing that their son had badly crashed the car, his parents did not blame him at all, and his dad even gave him betel nuts and cigarettes to “help him recover”.
Every Malay kingdom produces black birds' nest, (a specific kind of) incense, Chinese rosewood (Dalbergia odorifera), Croton crassifolius, betel nut, coconut and seaweed.