(idiom) to display one's facility with words; to show off one's literary skills; (original meaning) to pervert the law by playing with legal phraseology (墨[mo4] was a reference to 繩墨|绳墨[sheng2 mo4])
Characters in this word
4舞
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
to dance, to wield, to brandish
- Pinyin
- wǔ
- Strokes
- 14
- Frequency
- 3260 of 2500
文
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surname Wen
- Pinyin
- Wén
- Strokes
- 4
- Frequency
- 6670 of 2500
弄
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
lane, alley
- Pinyin
- lòng
- Strokes
- 7
- Frequency
- 466 of 2500
墨
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
surname Mo, abbr. for 墨西哥[Mo4 xi1 ge1], Mexico
- Pinyin
- Mò
- Strokes
- 15
- Frequency
- 24099 of 2500