一言以蔽之
yī​yán​yǐ​bì​zhī

to sum up in a word

  • created sense approved 一言以蔽之 · yī​yán​yǐ​bì​zhī · to sum up in a word — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    一言以蔽之

    yī​yán​yǐ​bì​zhī

    to sum up in a word

    to sum up in a single sentence; in a nutshell; to cut a long story short; this idiom comes from the "Analects of Confucius"

    yì​yán​yǐ​bì​zhī

    一言 (literal) → 一言 · yī​yán · one word 以 (literal) → 以 · yǐ · by means of 蔽 (literal) → 蔽 · bì · to summarize 之 (literal) → 之 · zhī · it

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense