含英咀華

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Chinese

to hold in the mouth; to bite blossom to chew blossom
trad. (含英咀華)
simp. (含英咀华)

Etymology

From 9th century, Han Yu (韓愈), 《進學解》:

含英咀華文章滿 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
𬪩含英咀华文章 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
From: c. 813, Han Yu, "On Encouraging Scholarship" (進學解)
Chén jìn nóng yù, hányīngjǔhuá. Zuò wèi wénzhāng, qí shū mǎn jiā.
You immerse yourself in the richness of literature, and you chew in your mouth the flowering passages. In your literary creations, there is an abundance of essential merits found in all the great masters before you.

Pronunciation


Idiom

含英咀華

  1. (figurative) to savour the merits of a literary work; to appreciate the subtleties in a literary work by rumination