"writes" Chinese-English Dictionary

Chinese	Pinyin	Part of speech	Translation	Actions
笔下筆下	bǐ xià		the wording and purport of what one writes
写手寫手	xiě shǒu		person who writes articles - newspapers, magazines, blogs (informal) / scribe / copyist / a talented writer of articles or of calligraphy
代书代書	dài shū		to write on sb's behalf / a scrivener (who writes legal documents or letters for others)
郢书燕说郢書燕說	yǐng shū yān shuō		lit. Ying writes a letter and Yan reads it / fig. to misinterpret the original meaning / to pile up errors / refers to the letter from capital 郢[Ying3] of 楚[Chu3] in which the inadvertent words "hold up the candle" are mistaken by the minister of 燕[Yan1] as "promote the wise"
下笔成章下筆成章	xià bǐ chéng zhāng		(idiom) To produce a written piece as soon as one takes up the brush. It describes someone whose thoughts flow quickly and who writes with great speed.	syn
张大其词	zhāng dà qí cí		(idiom) To exaggerate the content of what one says or writes, presenting facts in an inflated or bombastic way.
尺二秀才	chǐ èr xiù cái		(idiom) An old mocking term for a scholar who writes characters in their popular, nonstandard forms. “Chi’er” refers to the popular form of 尽, which has four additional strokes compared with the standard form.
床头捉刀人	chuáng tóu zhuō dāo rén		(idiom) Originally, the armed guard standing beside a ruler’s couch. By extension, it refers to someone who writes on another person’s behalf.
手不停毫	shǒu bù tíng háo		(idiom) To write without stopping. It describes someone who writes continuously and diligently.
援笔而就援筆而就	yuán bǐ ér jiù		(idiom) To write a piece immediately upon taking up the brush / to describe someone who writes with rapid inspiration and execution.
缀辞之士	zhuì cí zhī shì		(idiom) A person who writes books and develops ideas / an author or writer.
能书不择笔能書不擇筆	néng shū bù zé bǐ		(idiom) A person who writes well does not worry about the quality of the brush / skill matters more than the tool.
诗朋酒侣詩朋酒侶	shī péng jiǔ lǚ		(idiom) Friends with whom one writes poetry and drinks wine. It is synonymous with “friends of poetry and wine.”
诗朋酒友詩朋酒友	shī péng jiǔ yǒu		(idiom) Friends with whom one writes poetry and drinks wine.
请人捉刀請人捉刀	qǐng rén zhuō dāo		(idiom) To ask someone to perform a task or write a text on one’s behalf. The “knife wielder” refers here to the person who writes for someone else.

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