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咬文嚼字
yǎo wén jiáo zì
What 咬文嚼字 means
- to bite words and chew characters (idiom); punctilious about minutiae of wording
The characters in 咬文嚼字
- 咬yǎoto bite; to nip
- 文wénlanguage; culture; writing
- 嚼jiáoto chew; also pr. jué
- 字zìletter; symbol; character
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- The four tones and the neutral tone, to read yǎo wén jiáo zì correctly.
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