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笔杆子
bǐ​gǎn​zi

pen shaft

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  • 耍笔杆子 shuǎ​bǐ​gǎn​zi to wield a pen
    to make a living by writing or to engage in professional writing, often with a derogatory connotation of being a desk-bound intellectual or engaging in empty rhetoric