妙喻取譬

妙喻取譬 in English

miào yù qǔ pì: (idiom) To explain an idea through ingenious comparisons. It is used especially of spoken explanations or written compositions.

Character breakdown

妙玅 miào clever
喻 yù to describe sth as
取 qǔ to take
譬 pì to give an example

Stroke order

Le caractère 妙 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 妙

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

Le caractère 取 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 取

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

How it used to be written

妙

Clerical script 東漢

喻

Clerical script 東漢
Clerical script 曹魏

取

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 11 forms

譬

Small seal script

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

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