相形見絀 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 相形见绌 xiāngxíngjiànchù ㄒㄧㄤ ㄒㄧㄥˊ ㄐㄧㄢˋ ㄔㄨˋ to pale by comparison (idiom) Character by character 相(xiāng)surname Xiang 形(xíng)appear 見(jiàn)see 絀(chù)crimson silk A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0