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不言而喻

不言而喻 bùyánéryù

不言而喻 bùyánéryù Meaning

Learn the Pinyin Pronunciation and 2 English Translations of the word 不言而喻 bùyánéryù .

Pīnyīn Pronunciation
bùyánéryù | bu4 yan2 er2 yu4
English translation
it goes without saying
it is self-evident

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Traditional form

不言而喻 bùyánéryù

Part of speech

Idiom / 成语 chéngyǔ Chéngyǔ
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Etymology of 不言而喻 bùyánéryù

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Type

ideographic

Explanation

Pictograph of sepals of a flower. The meaning "no" is a phonetic loan.

Positional decomposition

Number of Strokes

4

yán

Type

ideographic

Explanation

Pictograph of a tongue sticking out of a mouth. In old scripts written the same as shé but with an extra line.

Positional decomposition

tóu 二口

Number of Strokes

7

ér

Explanation

Originally a pictograph of a beard, now written as Ér . The current use as a conjunction is a phonetic loan.

Positional decomposition

Number of Strokes

6

Type

pictophonetic

Explanation

Phonosemantic compound. kǒu represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Phonetic compound

Semantic compound

kǒu

Positional decomposition

口俞

Number of Strokes

12

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Example sentences using 不言而喻 bùyánéryù

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rén 年纪 niánjì 越大通常 tōngcháng 灵活性 líng huó xìng 越差这是不言而喻 bùyánéryù de

It is axiomatic that as people grow older they generally become less agile.

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