liàn​zì

to craft one's words

  • created sense approved 炼字/煉字 · liàn​zì · to craft one's words — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    炼字 / 煉字

    liàn​zì

    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

    created sense