- 文房四宝
- wénfángsìbǎoThe four stationery treasures of Chinese study including a writing brush, an ink stick, an ink stone and paper.* * *the four treasures of the study* * *the four treasures of the study,i.e. writing brush,ink stick,ink slab,paper* * *wen2 fang2 si4 bao3Four Treasures of the Study, namely 筆, 笔, 墨, 紙, 纸, and 硯, 砚, the essentials of calligraphy and scholarship (idiom)* * *文房四宝wén fáng sì bǎothe “scholar's four jewels” (writing brush, ink stick, ink slab and paper); “the four precious articles of the writing table”; writing materials; stationery* * *
Chinese-English dictionary. Academic. 2013.