Every word of his speech was like a pearl - brilliant and polished.
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usage
玑 almost always appears in the literary compound 珠玑 (pearls; gems of wisdom). The idiom 字字珠玑 means every word is a gem - praising eloquent speech or writing.
On the left this looks like 王 king, but it is actually 玉 jade with its dot absorbed - the standard left-side form of the jade radical. It marks 玑 as a precious-stone word and groups it with 珍, 珠, 玲 in the gem family.
Lends its sound jī unchanged. Its everyday meaning of small table is irrelevant - readers latch onto 几 simply to recover the pronunciation of this rare literary word for an irregular pearl.
