喻 yù
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yù
noun
an analogy; a simile; a metaphor; an allegory
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: Middle Chinese: yuH; a variant of simplified 谕, traditional 諭 and archaic or Korean 喩; in the sense of 比方 (CCD '喻' 3; Kroll 2015 '喻'; Unihan '喻') -
yù
proper noun
Yu
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Names , Concept: Surname 姓氏
Notes: (CCD '喻' 4) -
yù
verb
to explain
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (CCD '喻' 1) -
yù
verb
to understand
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: For example, 家喻户晓 'every family and household knows' (CCI p. 34; CCD '喻' 2)
Contained in
- 逆喻 oxymoron
- 自喻 to refer to oneself
- 提喻法 synecdoche
- 言喻 to describe; to put into words
- 不可理喻 to be impervious to reason; unreasonable
- 借古喻今 to borrow the past as a model for the present
- 比喻义(比喻義) figurative meaning (of a word)
- 以仁惠镌喻(以仁惠鐫喻) exhortated with kindness
- 借喻 to use as a metaphor; metaphorically
- 比喻 a simile; a metaphor; an analogy; a figure of speech ; to compare two things
- 家喻户晓(家喻戶曉) every family and household knows; understood by everyone; well known
- 引喻失义(引喻失義) to draw on an inappropriate analogy
- 不可言喻 inexpressible
- 风喻(風喻) parable; allegory
- 理喻 to reason with sb
- 不言而喻 it goes without saying; it is self-evident
- 镌喻(鐫喻) exhortation
- 譬喻 simile; rhetorical comparison; analogy
- 晓喻(曉喻) to inform; to convince
Also contained in
喻世明言 、 明喻 、 计算机比喻 、 换喻 、 暗喻 、 转喻 、 隐喻 、 讽喻
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 卷二十五 Scroll 25 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 31
- 卷二十四 Scroll 24 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 26
- 卷三十二 Scroll 32 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 26
- 卷二十九 Scroll 29 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 25
- 卷十七 Scroll 17 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 17
- 卷五十九 張衡列傳 Volume 59: Biography of Zhang Heng Book of Later Han 後漢書 — count: 16
- 卷二十一 Scroll 21 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 16
- 卷五十五 Scroll 55 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 16
- 卷二十 Scroll 20 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 16
- 卷二十六 Scroll 26 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 15
Collocations
- 喻告 (喻告) 以禮義條教喻告化之 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《張丞相列傳》 Biography of Chancellor Zhang — count: 4
- 可以喻 (可以喻) 環可以喻員 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷十七 說林訓 Chapter 17: A Forest of Persuasion — count: 4
- 喻意 (喻意) 故制禮足以佐實喻意而已矣 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷十一 齊俗訓 Chapter 11: Combining Customs — count: 4
- 喻女子 (喻女子) 喻女子正在年轻美貌之时 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧衞‧氓 Lessons from the states - Odes of Wei - Mang — count: 3
- 足以喻 (足以喻) 單足以喻則單 — Xunzi 荀子, 正名篇第二十二 Chapter 22: Correcting Names — count: 3
- 教喻 (教喻) 是以教喻而德成也 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《文王世子》King Wen as Son and Heir — count: 3
- 喻子 (喻子) 喻子之成立 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧邶风‧凱風 Lessons from the states - Odes of Bei - Kai Feng — count: 3
- 博喻 (博喻) 然後能博喻 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《學記》 Record on the Subject of Education — count: 3
- 喻人 (喻人) 喻人有大失 — Guanzi 管子, 形勢第二 Chapter 2: Circumstances — count: 2
- 喻秦 (喻秦) 而病爲妨喻秦虛心待韓 — Han Feizi 韓非子, 存韓第二 Chapter 2: The Preservation of State of Han — count: 2