zhú​zì​zhú​jù

word for word

逐字逐句 zhú​zì​zhú​jù
word for word adverb
literal; word by word and sentence by sentence; following the order of the text exactly

One should understand word by word and sentence by sentence when learning Chinese.

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.150 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.237 per million

Sources