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咬文嚼字

yǎo wén jiáo to bite words and chew characters (idiom); punctilious about minutiae of wording
yǎo to bite / to nip
yǎo variant of
  Wén surname Wen
  wén language / culture / writing / formal / literary / gentle / (old) classifier for coins / Kangxi radical 67
   jiáo to chew / also pr. [jue2]
   jiào used in 倒嚼
    letter / symbol / character / word / CL: / courtesy or style name traditionally given to males aged 20 in dynastic China
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