见微知著 — Chinese idiom
见微知著
jiàn wēi zhī zhù
Traditional: 見微知著
Meaning
- to examine tiny clues to know general trends; to deduce the whole story from small traces
Character by character
- 见jiànto see, to observe, to meet, to appear
- 微wēismall, tiny, trifling; micro-
- 知zhīto know, to perceive, to comprehend
- 著zhùto show, to prove, to make known
Idioms sharing a character
- 一孔之见 yī kǒng zhī jiàn
- 一般见识 yī bān jiàn shi
- 一见钟情 yī jiàn zhōng qíng
- 一见高低 yī jiàn gāo dī
- 一针见血 yī zhēn jiàn xiě
- 不见不散 bù jiàn bù sàn
- 不见天日 bù jiàn tiān rì
- 不见经传 bù jiàn jīng zhuàn
- 井蛙之见 jǐng wā zhī jiàn
- 兵戎相见 bīng róng xiāng jiàn
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