HSK 6 · Ideas

不言而喻 bùyán'éryù “self-evident” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 不言而喻 means

  1. self-evident
  2. it goes without saying
  3. (idiom) it goes without saying
  4. it is self-evident

How to say 不言而喻

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale不bù4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale言yán2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale而ér2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale喻yù4th tone, falling

不言而喻 in a sentence

  1. 不言而喻。

    Bùyán'éryù.

    That goes without saying.

    Sentence #4760000 from Tatoeba

How 不言而喻 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 不 (bù) drawn as one shape
不bùno; not so

不 is a single shape of 4 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

Memory aidPicture a bar 一 across the top that nothing below can get past: not, no.

The character 言 (yán) with each of its parts in a different colour
言yánwords
  • 亠lid · tóu
  • 二two · èr
  • 口mouth · kǒu
The character 而 (ér) drawn as one shape
而érand

而 is a single shape of 6 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

Memory aidDrawn from a beard. Today it links ideas: and, but.

The character 喻 (yù) with each of its parts in a different colour
喻yùto describe sth as
  • 口mouth · kǒuMeaning part
  • 俞to consent · yúSound part

口 hints at the meaning (mouth); 俞 (yú) hints at the sound. Compare it with yù.

How to write 不言而喻

不 4 strokes · 言 7 strokes · 而 6 strokes · 喻 12 strokes

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不言而喻 (bùyán'éryù) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 不言而喻 (bùyán'éryù). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 不言而喻

Words with 不

不bù · no不要bùyào · don’t!不客气bú kèqi · you’re welcome对不起duìbuqǐ · sorry不错bùcuò · not bad不好意思bùhǎoyìsi · to feel embarrassed不但búdàn · not only不同bùtóng · different不少bùshǎo · quite a few不见bújiàn · to be missing

Words with 言

语言yǔyán · language发言fāyán · to make a speech预言yùyán · to predict方言fāngyán · dialect言论yánlùn · speech谣言yáoyán · rumour序言xùyán · preface寓言yùyán · fable总而言之zǒng'éryánzhī · in short

Words with 而

而且érqiě · moreover而ér · and然而rán'ér · however从而cóng'ér · thus反而fǎn'ér · on the contrary因而yīn'ér · therefore时而shí'ér · sometimes而已éryǐ · that’s all进而jìn'ér · and then侃侃而谈kǎnkǎn'értán · to speak with ease and confidence

Words with 喻

比喻bǐyù · metaphor家喻户晓jiāyùhùxiǎo · known to everyone

More words: Ideas & Concepts

比喻bǐyù · metaphor比重bǐzhòng · proportion步伐bùfá · pace布局bùjú · layout不择手段bùzéshǒuduàn · by any means necessary策略cèlüè · strategy侧面cèmiàn · side层出不穷céngchūbùqióng · to emerge one after another

FAQs

不言而喻 (bùyán’éryù) means “self-evident” or “it goes without saying”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it bùyán’éryù: bù with a 4th tone, then yán with a 2nd tone, then ér with a 2nd tone, then yù with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 不言而喻 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type buyaneryu with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 不言而喻 from the suggestions. Typing buyaneryu into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
不言而喻 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.