喻 yù metaphor
metaphor; analogy
怎么记住“喻”: 口 mouth + 俞 dugout boat = metaphor. The poet opens her mouth and calls her tired heart a leaky dugout boat, and the teacher writes it under the heading metaphor.
部件结构
形声 · Meaning + sound
One part gives the meaning, the other gives the sound.
喻 = 口 mouth + 俞 dugout boat
- 口 mouth meaning
- 俞 dugout boat sound
The poet opens her mouth and calls her tired heart a leaky dugout boat, and the teacher writes it under the heading metaphor.
How it came to be
The mouth gives the meaning and the dugout boat gives the sound.
用法
- Bound literary character centered on 比喻 (bǐyù): metaphor, or "to compare X to Y".
- Appears in the idiom 家喻户晓 (jiāyù-hùxiǎo): known to every household, i.e. universally famous.
- Also in 不言而喻 (bùyán'éryù): it goes without saying, a common written phrase for stating the obvious.
- Formal/literary register; not used as a standalone verb in speech.