望文生义 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 望文生義 wàngwénshēngyì ㄨㄤˋ ㄨㄣˊ ㄕㄥ ㄧˋ lit. view a text and interpret (idiom) to interpret word by word without understanding the meaning a far-fetched interpretation Character by character 望(wàng)full moon 文(wén)surname Wen 生(shēng)grow 义(yì)surname Yi A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0