"Nub" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 zhèng zhōng middle / center / right in the middle or center / nub
 qiè zhòng shí bì to hit home on the evils of the day (idiom) / fig. to hit a current political target / to hit the nub of the matter
 tàn lí dé zhū to pluck a pearl from the black dragon (idiom, from Zhuangzi) / fig. to pick out the salient points (from a tangled situation) / to see through to the nub
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