要而言之
yào'ér​yán​zhī

to sum up

  • created sense approved 要而言之 · yào'ér​yán​zhī · to sum up — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    要而言之

    yào'ér​yán​zhī

    to sum up

    to put it briefly; in short; in a nutshell

    要 (literal) → 要 · yào · summary 而 (literal) → 而 · ér · [adverbial linker] 言 (literal) → 言 · yán · to say 之 (literal) → 之 · zhī · it

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

    created sense