zhū​mò

vermilion and black

朱墨 zhū​mò
vermilion and black
red and black; refers to ink colors or the two-color printing process
vermilion ink
ink made from cinnabar
official documents
(literary) official government papers or administrative work; so called because ancient official documents used both red and black ink
annotation and grading
to annotate, grade, or evaluate texts using red and black ink to distinguish between different types of comments or edits

Frequency

Written text
0.057 per million

Sources

Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)