Can you write down a Chinese word being read to you? It can be difficult, e      when the word is not included in most dictionaries.
Lu Jialei, 14, from Hangzhou Foreign Language School, w      the CCTV Chinese Character (汉字) Spelling Contest on Oct 18, 2013.
About 160 people competed. The host read a word to the contestant (参赛选手), explained its meaning and gave sample sentences. The contestant was required to w________ down the word.
Winning the contest was a “surprise” to Lu Jialei. “I am not the smartest one,” she said. “But I pay a     to details.”
To prepare for the contest, she and her teammates studied the Modern Chinese Dictionary for 10 days. There are more than 56,000 entries (词条) i        characters, phrases and words in it.
She also has a secret weapon (武器). She studied h______ Chinese characters were structured (构成). In the final, judges gave her the word wanluan and said it means graceful and
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“I’ve never h________ of that word!” said Lu.
But she made a good guess. “Characters meaning pretty often have ‘女’ in it, while many characters pronouncing luan have ‘亦’. So I wrote it down: ‘婉娈’,” she said.
This s    weapon came from her good reading habits.
“L_____ to write Chinese characters is an important part of inheriting (传承) culture,” said Su Yunsheng, Lu’s Chinese teacher.
Su is happy to see students like Lu find the beauty of Chinese language.