Gǔwén xiě le yī gè kào wū qiáng móushēng de wū zhě.
A classical essay tells of a plasterer who made his living troweling walls.
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history
圬 is archaic and not used independently in modern Chinese. It is famous from Han Yu's essay 圬者王承福传 ('Biography of Wang Chengfu the Plasterer'). The modern words are 抹墙 (to plaster a wall) and 泥瓦匠 (a plasterer).
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Classical only — found in old prose and etymology notes, not in modern speech.
