yǎo wén jiáo zì

咬文嚼字 (yǎo wén jiáo zì) is a Chinese word meaning “to bite words and chew characters (idiom); punctilious about minutiae of wording”.

Meanings

  1. 1to bite words and chew characters (idiom); punctilious about minutiae of wording

Characters in 咬文嚼字

咬yǎo · to bite文wén · language嚼jiáo · to chew字zì · letter

Related words

名字name (of a person or thing)文件document字letter咬to bite咬variant of 咬[yao3]数字numeral文章article文language文surname Wen文化culture凯文Kevin (person name)字母letter (of the alphabet)

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