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Open the tool →率尔操觚 (shuài ěr cāo gū) is a Chinese idiom (chengyu) meaning “originally describes writing with great fluency and speed”.
率尔操觚 is pronounced shuài ěr cāo gū in Mandarin Chinese.
Literally, 率尔操觚 means “to spontaneously wield a writing tablet; to write without much thought”. It is used to mean “originally describes writing with great fluency and speed”.
觚:方木,古人用它来书写。率尔:不加思索;操觚:指作文。原形容文思敏捷,后指没有慎重考虑,轻率地写。