Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- yù
- Yù
English
- metaphor, analogy
- surname Yu
- to describe sth as
- example
- an analogy
- like
- a simile
- a metaphor
- an allegory
- metaphor
- to suggest; to teach
- to know clearly; to understand
粵語
- 藉住一啲相同性質而具體嘅事物，去表達、講述一啲抽象或者難明嘅概念
- 開導；勸告；指引
- 知道；清楚噉明白
Words containing 喻
- 比喻bei2 jyu6
to compare
- 隱喻jan2 jyu6
metaphor
- 明喻ming4 jyu6
simile
- 借喻ze3 jyu6
to use sth as a metaphor
- 暗喻am3 jyu6
metaphor
- 譬喻pei3 jyu6
analogy
- 不言而喻bat1 jin4 ji4 jyu6
(idiom) it goes without saying; it is self-evident
- 言喻jin4 jyu6
to describe; to put into words
- 理喻lei5 jyu6
to reason with sb
- 逆喻jik6 jyu6
oxymoron
- 勸喻hyun3 jyu6
(usually by government or organisations) to advise; to exhort
- 曉喻hiu2 jyu6
to inform
- 比喻義bei2 jyu6 ji6
figurative meaning (of a word)
- 諷喻fung3 jyu6
parable
- 不可理喻bat1 ho2 lei5 jyu6
(idiom) impervious to reason; unreasonable
- 家喻戶曉gaa1 jyu6 wu6 hiu2
understood by everyone (idiom); well known
- 自喻zi6 jyu6
to refer to oneself as
- 風喻fung1 jyu6
see 諷喻|讽喻[feng3 yu4]
- 轉喻zyun2 jyu6
metonymy
- 換喻wun6 jyu6
metonymy
- 提喻法tai4 jyu6 faat3
synecdoche
- 難以言喻naan4 ji5 jin4 jyu6
feeling so complicated that it can be hardly put into words
- 不可言喻bat1 ho2 jin4 jyu6
inexpressible (idiom)
- 家喻户曉gaa1 jyu6 wu6 hiu2
Well known