"wording" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation Actions
说法 說法 shuō fa way of speaking / wording / formulation / one's version (of events) / statement / theory / hypothesis / interpretation syn
用语 用語 yòng yǔ choice of words / wording / phraseology / term syn
字眼 zì yǎn wording syn
用词 用詞 yòng cí usage (of a term) / wording / phrasing
提法 tí fǎ wording (of a proposal) / formulation / viewpoint (on an issue) / (one of eight methods of bonesetting in TCM) restoring the part displaced by a fracture to its correct position by lifting syn
措辞 措辭 cuò cí wording / way of expressing something / turn of phrase / diction syn
措词 措詞 cuò cí wording / way of expressing something / turn of phrase / diction syn
遣词 遣詞 qiǎn cí to choose one's words / wording
Chinese Pinyin Translation Actions
笔下 筆下 bǐ xià the wording and purport of what one writes
语病 語病 yǔ bìng faulty wording / mispronunciation due to a speech defect
咬文嚼字 yǎo wén jiáo zì to bite words and chew characters (idiom) / punctilious about minutiae of wording syn
搜索枯肠 搜索枯腸 sōu suǒ kū cháng to rack one's brains (for apt wording etc) (idiom) syn
进道若蜷 進道若蜷 jìn dào ruò quán progress seems like regress (alternative wording for 進道若退|进道若退[jin4 dao4 ruo4 tui4])
The four tones The four tones of Mandarin Pitch over time: tone 1 high and level (red), tone 2 rising (orange), tone 3 falling then rising (green), tone 4 falling (blue). tone 1 tone 2 tone 3 tone 4 Time Pitch

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