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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
不言自明
self-evident; needing no explanation (idiom)
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
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self-evident; needing no explanation (idiom)
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 不言自明 actually appears in real sentences.
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No published English translation for this sentence.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 不言自明.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 不言自明.
Directly before
- 是不言自明1
Directly after
- 不言自明的1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 不言自明
What does 不言自明 mean in Chinese?
不言自明 (bùyánzìmíng) means self-evident; needing no explanation (idiom).
How do you pronounce 不言自明?
不言自明 is pronounced bùyánzìmíng.
Is 不言自明 an HSK word?
不言自明 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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