dōng​hōng

pedantic

  • created sense approved 冬烘 · dōng​hōng · pedantic — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    冬烘

    dōng​hōng

    pedantic

    (literary) describes a person who is pedantic, shallow, and out of touch with reality; often used to mock old-fashioned or uneducated scholars, such as in the phrase [[冬烘先生|冬烘先生|dong1 hong1 xian1 sheng5]]

    冬 (literal) → 冬 · dōng · winter 烘 (literal) → 烘 · hōng · to bake

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

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