"Writes" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 笔下 | bǐ xià | the wording and purport of what one writes |  |
| 写手 | xiě shǒu | person who writes articles - newspapers, magazines, blogs (informal) / scribe / copyist / a talented writer of articles or of calligraphy | |
| 代书 | dài shū | to write on sb's behalf / a scrivener (who writes legal documents or letters for others) | |
| 郢书燕说 | 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" | |
