寓意
yù yì
Pinyin

Definition

寓意
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yù yì
  1. moral (of a story)
  2. lesson to be learned
  3. implication
  4. message
  5. import
  6. metaphorical meaning

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

任意
rèn yì
  1. 1 any
  2. 2 arbitrary
  3. 3 at will
  4. 4 at random
公寓
gōng yù
  1. 1 apartment building
  2. 2 block of flats
  3. 3 classifier: 套 tào
创意
chuàng yì
  1. 1 creative
  2. 2 creativity
在意
zài yì
  1. 1 to care about
  2. 2 to mind
好意思
hǎo yì si
  1. 1 to have the nerve
  2. 2 what a cheek!
  3. 3 to feel no shame
  4. 4 to overcome the shame
  5. 5 (is it) proper? (rhetorical question)

Idioms (20)

一意孤行
yī yì gū xíng
  1. 1 obstinately clinging to one's course (idiom)
  2. 2 willful
  3. 3 one's own way
  4. 4 dogmatic
三心二意
sān xīn èr yì
  1. 1 in two minds about sth (idiom)
  2. 2 half-hearted
  3. 3 shilly-shallying
出乎意外
chū hū yì wài
  1. 1 beyond expectation (idiom); unexpected
出乎意料
chū hū yì liào
  1. 1 beyond expectation (idiom); unexpected
出人意外
chū rén yì wài
  1. 1 turned out other than expected (idiom); unexpected

Sample Sentences

诶，我还知道，年夜饭中一定要有鱼，寓意着来年有“余”，也说年年有鱼。
èi ，wǒ hái zhīdào ，niányèfàn zhōng yīdìng yào yǒu yú ，yùyì zhe láinián yǒu “yú ”，yě shuō niánnián yǒu yú 。
Ah, I also know that Chinese New Year dinner has to feature fish, because the character for fish is the same as that for "surplus", which represents that the New Year will bring you a surplus of fortune, and that's where the saying, "to have surplus (fish) every year" comes from.
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