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明喻
míng​yù

simile

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
明喻 míng​yù
simile
A way of describing something by explicitly comparing it to something else, often using words like 像 xiàng or 好像 hǎo​xiàng meaning "like" or "as"

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.090 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.063 per million

Cross-References

Antonym

  • 隐喻 yǐn​yù
  • 暗喻 àn​yù

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)