滚子

滾子
gǔnzi
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 roller (in a bearing or machine)
  2. 2 stone roller (for threshing grain or flattening ground)

Examples

HSK 7-9
Zhè zhǒng zhóuchéng lǐ zhuāng de shì gǔnzi, bú shì gāngzhū.
This kind of bearing holds rollers, not steel balls.
HSK 7-9
Yǐqián nóngmín yòng niú lā zhe shítou gǔnzi niǎn màizi.
In the old days, farmers had oxen pull stone rollers over the wheat to thresh it.

Tips

usage
滚子 is any rolling cylinder that carries a load. In machines it is the roller inside a 滚子轴承 (roller bearing), as opposed to the balls of a 滚珠轴承 (ball bearing). On a farm it is the heavy stone roller, also called 碌碡.

Stroke Order

滚 gǔn
子 zǐ