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耍笔杆子
shuǎ​bǐ​gǎn​zi

to wield a pen

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
耍笔杆子 耍筆桿子 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

Frequency

Written text
0.010 per million

Cross-References

Has variant

  • 耍笔杆 shuǎ​bǐ​gǎn

Sources

Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)