咬文嚼字
yǎo wén jiáo zì
Pinyin

Definition

咬文嚼字
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yǎo wén jiáo zì
  1. to bite words and chew characters (idiom); punctilious about minutiae of wording

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

中文
Zhōng wén
  1. 1 Chinese language
博文
bó wén
  1. 1 blog article
  2. 2 to write a blog article (netspeak)
原文
yuán wén
  1. 1 original text
名字
míng zi
  1. 1 name (of a person or thing)
  2. 2 classifier: 个 gè
咬
yǎo
  1. 1 to bite
  2. 2 to nip

Idioms (20)

一字一泪
yī zì yī lèi
  1. 1 each word is a teardrop (idiom)
一字不提
yī zì bù tí
  1. 1 to not mention a single word (about sth) (idiom)
一字千金
yī zì qiān jīn
  1. 1 one word worth a thousand in gold (idiom)
  2. 2 (in praise of a piece of writing or calligraphy) each character is perfect
  3. 3 each word is highly valued
一字褒贬
yī zì bāo biǎn
  1. 1 dispensing praise or blame with a single word (idiom)
  2. 2 concise and powerful style
一年被蛇咬十年怕井绳
yī nián bèi shé yǎo shí nián pà jǐng shéng
  1. 1 bitten by a snake in one year, fears the well rope for ten years (idiom); once bitten twice shy

Sample Sentences

少跟我咬文嚼字了，我要继续看书去咯。
shǎo gēn wǒ yǎowénjiáozì le ，wǒ yào jìxù kànshū qù lo 。
Stop with your flowery language, I want to continue reading my book.
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