- 中文拼音
- Ying3 shu1 Yan1 shuo1
- 中文繁体
- 郢書燕說
- 英文翻译
- lit. Ying writes a letter and Yan reads it/fig. to misinterpret the original meaning/to pile up errors/refers to the letter from capital 郢[Ying3] of 楚[Chu3] in which the inadvertent words "hold up the candle" are mistaken by the minister of 燕[Yan1] as "promote the wise"