简明扼要 — Chinese idiom
简明扼要
jiǎn míng è yào
Traditional: 簡明扼要
Meaning
- brief and to the point
- succinct
Character by character
- 简jiǎnsimple, succinct, terse; a letter
- 明míngbright, clear; to explain, to understand, to shed
- 扼èto clutch, to grasp; to choke, to strangle
- 要yàoessential, necessary; to ask for; to coerce; to de
Idioms sharing a character
- 因陋就简 yīn lòu jiù jiǎn
- 言简意赅 yán jiǎn yì gāi
- 不明不白 bù míng bù bái
- 不明事理 bù míng shì lǐ
- 不言自明 bù yán zì míng
- 事后聪明 shì hòu cōng ming
- 以资证明 yǐ zī zhèng míng
- 来历不明 lái lì bù míng
- 光明磊落 guāng míng lěi luò
- 冰雪聪明 bīng xuě cōng ming
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