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玲珑剔透

líng lóng tī tòu

4-character word Traditional 玲瓏剔透

What 玲珑剔透 means

1. exquisitely made
2. very clever

The characters in 玲珑剔透

• 玲líng(onomatopoeia) ting-a-ling (in compounds such as 玎玲 or 玲珑); tinkling of gem-pendants
• 珑lóngtinkling of gem-pendants
• 剔tīto scrape the meat from bones; to pick (teeth etc); to weed out
• 透tòu(bound form) to penetrate; to seep through; to tell secretly; to leak; thoroughly…

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