見微知著 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 见微知著 jiànwēizhīzhù ㄐㄧㄢˋ ㄨㄟ ㄓ ㄓㄨˋ to examine tiny clues to know general trends to deduce the whole story from small traces idiom Character by character 見(jiàn)see 微(wēi)surname Wei 知(zhī)know 著(zhù) A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0