引經據典 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 引经据典 On the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list, at CEFR level C2. yǐnjīngjùdiǎn ㄧㄣˇ ㄐㄧㄥ ㄐㄩˋ ㄉㄧㄢˇ 男 女 lit. to quote the classics to quote chapter and verse (idiom) Character by character 引(yǐn)draw 經(jīng)classics 據(jù)according to 典(diǎn)canon A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0 国际中文教育中文水平等级标准, 中华人民共和国教育部, MIT