点金成铁 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 點金成鐵 diǎnjīnchéngtiě ㄉㄧㄢˇ ㄐㄧㄣ ㄔㄥˊ ㄊㄧㄝˇ to transform gold into base metal (idiom) fig. to edit sb else's beautiful prose and ruin it Character by character 点(diǎn)point 金(jīn)surname Jin 成(chéng)surname Cheng 铁(tiě)surname Tie A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0