created sense approved 炼字/煉字 · liànzì · to craft one's words — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"
炼字 / 煉字
liànzì
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.
鍊字
炼, 字
炼 (literal) → 炼/煉 · liàn · to polish 字 (literal) → 字 · zì · character
Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition