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Chinese Character/Word:
Definition(s) for: 舞文弄墨
| Hanzi | Pinyin | Definition(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 舞文弄墨 | wǔ wén nòng mò | - (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]) |
List Ranking:
Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.
| HSK 2 Level (2012) | HSK 3 Band (2022) | SUBTLEX-CH | BeijingUni Global | BeijingUni Weibo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | - | 51,011 | 85,479 | 80,524 |
Individual Character Breakdown:
| Simp | Pinyin | Eng |
|---|---|---|
| 舞 | wǔ | - to dance - to wield - to brandish |
| 文 | wén | - surname Wen |
| 文 | wén | - language - culture - writing - formal - literary - gentle - (old) classifier for coins - Kangxi radical 67 |
| 弄 | lòng | - lane - alley |
| 弄 | nòng | - to do - to manage - to handle - to play with - to fool with - to mess with - to fix - to toy with |
| 弄 | nòng | - old variant of 弄[nong4] |
| 弄 | lòng | - variant of 弄[long4] |
| 墨 | mò | - surname Mo - abbr. for 墨西哥[Mo4xi1ge1], Mexico |
| 墨 | mò | - ink stick - China ink - CL:塊|块[kuai4] - corporal punishment consisting of tattooing characters on the victim's forehead |
Other Words Containing 舞文弄墨
Sorted by the 'SUBTLEX-CH' rank because that seems like the most reliable. Words without a SUBTLEX-CH rank are ignored for being too rare.
| Word | HSK 2 Level (2012) | HSK 3 Band (2022) | SUBTLEX-CH | BeijingUni Global | BeijingUni Weibo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 舞文弄墨 | - | - | 51,011 | 85,479 | 80,524 |