爐火純青 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 炉火纯青 lúhuǒchúnqīng ㄌㄨˊ ㄏㄨㄛˇ ㄔㄨㄣˊ ㄑㄧㄥ the stove fire has turned bright green (allusion to Daoist alchemy) (idiom) lit. (of an art, a technique etc) brought to the point of perfection fig. Character by character 爐(lú)stove 火(huǒ)fire 純(chún)pure 青(qīng)green A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0