出类拔萃 — Chinese idiom
出类拔萃
chū lèi bá cuì
Traditional: 出類拔萃
Meaning
- to excel the common ; surpassing
- preeminent
- outstanding
Character by character
- 出chūto go out, to send out; stand; produce
- 类lèicategory, class, group, kind; similar to; to resem
- 拔báto uproot, to pull out; to select, to promote
- 萃cuìgrassy; thick, dense, close; to gather, to assembl
Idioms sharing a character
- 仓皇出逃 cāng huáng chū táo
- 倾巢而出 qīng cháo ér chū
- 出乎意外 chū hū yì wài
- 出乎意料 chū hū yì liào
- 出乎预料 chū hū yù liào
- 出人意外 chū rén yì wài
- 出人意料 chū rén yì liào
- 出人头地 chū rén tóu dì
- 出其不意 chū qí bù yì
- 出口成章 chū kǒu chéng zhāng
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