畫龍點睛 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 画龙点睛 On the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list, at CEFR level C2. huàlóngdiǎnjīng ㄏㄨㄚˋ ㄌㄨㄥˊ ㄉㄧㄢˇ ㄐㄧㄥ to paint a dragon and dot in the eyes (idiom) fig. to add the vital finishing touch the crucial point that brings the subject to life a few words to clinch the point Character by character 畫(huà)draw 龍(lóng)Chinese dragon 點(diǎn)point 睛(jīng)eye 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