舞文弄墨

(idiom) to display one's facility with words / to show off one's literary skills / (original meaning) to pervert the law by playing with legal phraseology (墨[mo4] was a reference to 繩墨|绳墨[sheng2 mo4])

lane / alley

to do / to manage / to handle / to play with / to fool with / to mess with / to fix / to toy with

old variant of 弄[nong4]

variant of 弄[long4]

to dance / to wield / to brandish

language / culture / writing / formal / literary / gentle / (old) classifier for coins / Kangxi radical 67

surname Mo / abbr. for 墨西哥[Mo4 xi1 ge1], Mexico

ink stick / China ink / CL:塊|块[kuai4] / corporal punishment consisting of tattooing characters on the victim's forehead