一字褒貶 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 一字褒贬 yīzìbāobiǎn ㄧ ㄗˋ ㄅㄠ ㄅㄧㄢˇ 男 女 to dispense praise or blame with a single word (idiom) lit. concise and powerful wording fig. Character by character 一(yī)one 字(zì)letter 褒(bāo)praise 貶(biǎn)diminish A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0