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笔墨

筆墨
bǐmò
noun HSK 7-9 #46,878

Meanings

  1. 1 pen and ink
  2. 2 writing; words on a page

Examples

HSK 4
这件事不值得浪费笔墨。
Zhè jiàn shì bù zhíde làngfèi bǐmò.
This isn't worth wasting ink on.
HSK 5
他的笔墨很有力量。
Tā de bǐmò hěn yǒu lìliang.
His writing has real force to it.
HSK 5
那种感受难以用笔墨形容。
Nà zhǒng gǎnshòu nányǐ yòng bǐmò xíngróng.
That feeling is hard to put into words.

Tips

culture
Two of the 文房四宝, the four treasures of the study, alongside paper and inkstone. The pair stands in for written expression generally, much as "ink" does in English.

Stroke Order

笔 bǐ
墨 mò