点铁成金 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 點鐵成金 diǎntiěchéngjīn ㄉㄧㄢˇ ㄊㄧㄝˇ ㄔㄥˊ ㄐㄧㄣ to touch base matter and turn it to gold (idiom) fig. to turn crude writing into a literary gem Character by character 点(diǎn)point 铁(tiě)surname Tie 成(chéng)surname Cheng 金(jīn)surname Jin A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0