created sense approved 喻依 · yùyī · vehicle (in a metaphor) — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"
喻依
yùyī
vehicle (in a metaphor)
The object or concept to which something is compared in a metaphor or simile, such as the "books" in the phrase "friends are like books"; in Mainland China, this term is also used to refer to the tenor [[喻体|喻體|yu4 ti3]] of a metaphor
喻 (literal) → 喻 · yù · analogy 依 (literal) → 依 · yī · to depend on
Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition