青出于蓝而胜于蓝 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 青出於藍而勝於藍 qīngchūyúlánérshèngyúlán ㄑㄧㄥ ㄔㄨ ㄩˊ ㄌㄢˊ ㄦˊ ㄕㄥˋ ㄩˊ ㄌㄢˊ lit. the color blue is made out of indigo but is more vivid than indigo (idiom) fig. the student surpasses the master Character by character 青(qīng)short name for Qinghai 青海 qīnghǎi 出(chū)go out 于(yú)surname Yu 蓝(lán)surname Lan 而(ér)and 胜(shèng)victory 于(yú)surname Yu 蓝(lán)surname Lan A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0