zhuǎn​yù

metonymy

  • created sense approved 转喻/轉喻 · zhuǎn​yù · metonymy — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

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    zhuǎn​yù

    metonymy

    metonymy; a figure of speech in which a thing or concept is referred to by the name of something closely associated with it

    转 (literal) → 转/轉 · zhuǎn · to change 喻 (literal) → 喻 · yù · analogy

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

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