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用典

yòng diǎn

2-character word

What 用典 means

1. to use literary quotations; to use phrases taken from the classics

The characters in 用典

• 用yòngto use; to make use of; to employ; (coverb) with; using; to need…
• 典diǎncanon; law; standard work of scholarship

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