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咬文嚼字
yǎo​wén​jiáo​zì

pedantic

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
咬文嚼字 yǎo​wén​jiáo​zì
pedantic expression
to pay excessive attention to wording; punctilious about minutiae of wording (idiom)

Frequency

Written text
0.361 per million

Sources

Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)