描红 [
miáo hóng]
to trace over red characters (as a method of learning to write)
- 她把铅笔绑在第托手上,强迫第托照字母描红,直到第托能自己来。
She tied a pencil to his hand and forced it to trace the alphabet until he could do it alone. - 因为他姓孔,别人便从描红纸上的"上大人孔乙己"这半懂不懂的话里,替他取下一个绰号,叫作孔乙己.
And as his surname was Kong, he was given the nickname Kong Yiji from Kong Yi Ji, the first three characters in the old-fashioned children's copy-book.