炉火纯青
lú​huǒ​chún​qīng

to reach perfection

  • created sense approved 炉火纯青/爐火純青 · lú​huǒ​chún​qīng · to reach perfection — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    炉火纯青 / 爐火純青

    lú​huǒ​chún​qīng

    to reach perfection

    (of an art, technique, or scholarship) having reached a high degree of perfection or mastery; literally refers to the pure blue flame in Daoist alchemy indicating that a potion or pill was successfully refined

    炉火 (literal) → 炉火/爐火 · lú​huǒ · alchemy 纯 (literal) → 纯/純 · chún · skillful 青 (literal) → 青 · qīng · blue

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

    created sense