烘雲托月 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 烘云托月 hōngyúntuōyuè ㄏㄨㄥ ㄩㄣˊ ㄊㄨㄛ ㄩㄝˋ lit. to shade in the clouds to offset the moon (idiom) fig. a foil a contrasting character to a main hero Character by character 烘(hōng)bake 雲(yún)surname Yun 托(tuō)hold up in one's hand 月(yuè)moon A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0