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炉火纯青

lú huǒ chún qīng

4-character word Traditional 爐火純青

What 炉火纯青 means

1. (lit.) the stove fire has turned bright green (allusion to Daoist alchemy) (idiom)
2. (fig.) (of an art, a technique etc) brought to the point of perfection

The characters in 炉火纯青

• 炉lústove; furnace
• 火huǒfire; urgent; ammunition
• 纯chúnpure; simple; unmixed
• 青qīnggreen; blue; black

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