文房四宝

文房四寶
wénfáng-sìbǎo
idiom

Meanings

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

Examples

HSK 6
Tā shōucáng le yī zhěngtào wénfáng-sìbǎo.
He collected a complete set of the Four Treasures of the Study.
HSK 7-9
Wénfáng-sìbǎo shì Zhōngguó wénrén bìbèi de gōngjù.
The Four Treasures of the Study are the essential tools of the Chinese literatus.

Tips

culture
文房 = 'study' (a scholar's room); 四宝 = four treasures. The canonical four are (brush), (ink stick), (paper), (ink-stone). Their most celebrated regional forms: 湖笔 (Huzhou brushes), 徽墨 (Huizhou ink), 宣纸 (Xuan paper from Anhui), 端砚 (Duan ink-stones from Guangdong).

Stroke Order

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fáng
bǎo