His writing doesn't pile on flowery language — it's plain and powerful.
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usage
Stock collocations: 辞藻华丽 (cízǎo huálì, 'flowery rhetoric'), 堆砌辞藻 (duīqì cízǎo, 'to pile on flowery language', usually criticism). Native graders use 辞藻 to flag writing that's all glitter and no substance.
memory
藻 originally means 'water plants / algae' — by extension, anything ornamental and decorative. 辞 (cí) is 'speech / writing'. So 辞藻 = the 'algae' of speech: pretty growths spread across the surface.
