鉄槌

See also: 鐵鎚 and 鐵錘

Japanese

Alternative spellings
鐵槌 (kyūjitai) 鉄鎚鉄つい

鉄(てっ)槌(つい) • (tettsui)

iron hammer
(figuratively) crushing blow
- 2013, Korean Central News Agency, “Traitor Jang Song Thaek Executed”
  判(はん)決(けつ)文(ぶん)の一(いっ)節(せつ)一(いっ)節(せつ)は、反(はん)党・反(とう・はん)革(かく)命(めい)分(ぶん)派(ぱ)分(ぶん)子(し)であり、凶(きょう)悪(あく)な政(せい)治(じ)的(てき)野(や)心(しん)家(か)、陰(いん)謀(ぼう)家(か)である張(チャン)成(ソン)沢(テク)の頭(ず)上(じょう)に下(くだ)された憎(ぞう)悪(お)と憤(ふん)激(げき)に満(み)ちたわが軍(ぐん)隊(たい)と人(じん)民(みん)のしゅん厳(げん)な鉄(てっ)槌(つい)同(どう)様(よう)であった。
  Hanketsubun no issetsu-issetsu wa, hantō hankakumei bunpa bunshi de ari, kyōaku na seijiteki yashinka, inbōka de aru Chan Son-teku no zujō ni kudasareta zōo to fungeki ni michita waga guntai to jinmin no shungen na tettsui dōyō de atta.
  Every sentence of the decision served as sledge-hammer blow brought down by our angry service personnel and people on the head of Jang, an anti-party, counter-revolutionary factional element and despicable political careerist and trickster.

Alternative spelling
鐵槌 (kyūjitai)

For pronunciation and definitions of 鉄槌 – see the following entry.

[noun] a hammer with at least a metal head, or possibly made entirely of metal

[noun] (figurative) someone who cannot swim at all (as a metal hammer sinks quickly in water)

Alternative spelling
鉄鎚

(This term, 鉄槌, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN