DICTIONARY · CC-CEDICT

爐火純青

简炉火纯青 · 繁爐火純青

Mandarin · pinyin lú huǒ chún qīng

(lit.) the stove fire has turned bright green (allusion to Daoist alchemy) (idiom)
(fig.) (of an art, a technique etc) brought to the point of perfection

Characters in this entry

Written characters and their own readings; the entry’s pronunciation is shown above.

2–3–2–1 · lu2 huo3 chun2 qing1

Dictionary tones. Connected speech can change their realization.

4character links

Counts describe dictionary records, not word frequency or semantic similarity. Source identities stay separate.

Compare dictionary sources Wiktionary · 1 sense · 1 Cantonese reading

lou4 fo2 seon4 cing1

Pleco · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Word reading; meanings not aligned.

Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.