文房四宝

文房四寶
wénfángsìbǎo
idiom

Meanings

  1. 1 Four Treasures of the Study
  2. 2 the four essentials of calligraphy: brush, ink, paper, ink-stone

Examples

Wénfáng sìbǎo shì Zhōngguó wénrén bìbèi de gōngjù.
The Four Treasures of the Study are the essential tools of the Chinese literatus.
Tā shōucángle yī zhěng tào wénfáng sìbǎo.
He collected a complete set of the Four Treasures of the Study.

Tips

culture
= 'study' (a scholar's room); = four treasures. The canonical four are (brush), (ink stick), (paper), (ink-stone). Their most celebrated regional forms: (Huzhou brushes), (Huizhou ink), 宣纸 (Xuan paper from Anhui), 端砚 (Duan ink-stones from Guangdong).

Stroke Order

wén
fáng
bǎo