舞文弄墨

舞文弄墨 wǔ wén nòng mò ㄨˇ ㄨㄣˊ ㄋㄨㄥˋ ㄇㄛˋ mou5 man4 lung6 mak6

(idiom) to display one's facility with words
to show off one's literary skills
(original meaning) to pervert the law by playing with legal phraseology (墨 mò ㄇㄛˋ was a reference to 绳墨 (繩墨) shéng mò ㄕㄥˊ ㄇㄛˋ)

Stroke order

Practice writing

Draw 舞 (1 of 4) — stroke by stroke.

Character breakdown

舞 radical 舛 = 無舛
文 radical 文 = 亠乂
弄 radical 廾 = 玉廾
墨 radical 土 = 黑土