略见一斑 — Chinese idiom
略见一斑
lüè jiàn yī bān
Traditional: 略見一斑
Meaning
- lit. to glimpse just one spot (of the leopard)
- fig. to get an inkling of the whole picture
Character by character
- 略lüèapproximate, rough; outline, summary; plan, plot
- 见jiànto see, to observe, to meet, to appear
- 一yīone; a, an; alone
- 斑bānfreckled, mottled, spotted, striped
Idioms sharing a character
- 攻城略地 gōng chéng lüè dì
- 略知一二 lüè zhī yī èr
- 略迹原情 lüè jì yuán qíng
- 疏谋少略 shū móu shǎo lüè
- 胸有成略 xiōng yǒu chéng lüè
- 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
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