自不必说 — Chinese idiom
自不必说
zì bù bì shuō
Traditional: 自不必說
Meaning
- needless to say
- it goes without saying
Character by character
- 自zìself; private, personal; from
- 不bùno, not, un-; negative prefix
- 必bìsurely, certainly; must; will
- 说shuōto speak, to say; to scold, to upbraid
Idioms sharing a character
- 不敢自专 bù gǎn zì zhuān
- 不由自主 bù yóu zì zhǔ
- 不自量力 bù zì liàng lì
- 不言自明 bù yán zì míng
- 任其自然 rèn qí zì rán
- 作茧自缚 zuò jiǎn zì fù
- 优游自得 yōu yóu zì dé
- 出自肺腑 chū zì fèi fǔ
- 刚愎自用 gāng bì zì yòng
- 卑以自牧 bēi yǐ zì mù
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