咬文嚼字
咬文嚼字
yǎo wén jiáo zì
to bite words and chew characters (idiom); punctilious about minutiae of wording
verbidiom
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- (verb, idiom) to bite words and chew characters (idiom); punctilious about minutiae of wording
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Related Words
呢(ne)— particle indicating that a previously asked question is to be applied to the preceding word ("What about ...?", "And ...?")
→好高骛远(hào gāo wù yuǎn)— to bite off more than one can chew (idiom)
→贪多嚼不烂(tān duō jiáo bù làn)— to bite off more than one can chew (idiom)
→字数(zì shù)— number of written characters
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