青出于蓝而胜于蓝 qīngchūyúlán'érshèngyúlán surpassing master Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 青出于蓝而胜于蓝 (青出於藍而勝於藍) qīngchūyúlán'érshèngyúlán surpassing master expression literally meaning blue dye comes from the indigo plant but is bluer than indigo; figuratively used to describe a student or successor who surpasses their teacher or predecessor Frequency Movie subtitles 0.030 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.176 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
青出于蓝而胜于蓝 (青出於藍而勝於藍) qīngchūyúlán'érshèngyúlán surpassing master expression literally meaning blue dye comes from the indigo plant but is bluer than indigo; figuratively used to describe a student or successor who surpasses their teacher or predecessor Frequency Movie subtitles 0.030 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.176 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
