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咬文嚼字

yǎo wén jiáo zìyaowenjiaozi

to bite words and chew characters (idiom); punctilious about minutiae of wording

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Data from JMdict, KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG), KanjiVG, CC-CEDICT and Make Me a Hanzi. Sources and licences