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炼字
liàn​zì

to craft one's words

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Senses

炼字/ 煉字 liàn​zì variants: 鍊字 to craft one's words

To carefully choose and refine the words in a piece of writing to make them more precise and expressive; to rack one's brains for the right word.

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