Ying3 shu1 Yan1 shuo1 :: ZWBit Chinese Character and PinYin Dictionary

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Pinyin Simplified Chinese	English	Traditional Chinese
YǐngshūYānshuō 郢书燕说^字	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";	郢書燕說^字