一言以蔽之 Save Sign in to save words yīyányǐbìzhī ㄧ ㄧㄢˊ ㄧˇ ㄅㄧˋ ㄓ one word says it all (idiom, from Analects) to cut a long story short in a nutshell Character by character 一(yī)one 言(yán)words 以(yǐ)use 蔽(bì)cover 之(zhī)(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的 de) A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0