"Analogy" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 比喻 | bǐ yù | to compare / to liken to / metaphor / analogy / figure of speech / figuratively |   |
| 比方 | bǐ fang | analogy / instance / for instance | |
| 比拟 | bǐ nǐ | to compare / to draw a parallel / to match / analogy / metaphor / comparison | |
| 类比 | lèi bǐ | analogy / (Tw) (electronics) analog | |
| 譬喻 | pì yù | analogy / metaphor / simile | |
| 类推 | lèi tuī | to reason by analogy | |
| 映衬 | yìng chèn | to set off by contrast / antithesis / analogy parallelism (linguistics) | |
| 引申 | yǐn shēn | to extend (the meaning of a word, an analogy etc) / derivation | |
| 触类旁通 | chù lèi páng tōng | to comprehend (new things) by analogy | |
| 反 |  fǎn | contrary / in reverse / inside out or upside down / to reverse / to return / to oppose / opposite / against / anti- / to rebel / to use analogy / instead / abbr. for 反切[fan3 qie4] phonetic system | |
| 生拉硬拽 | shēng lā yìng zhuài | to drag sb along against his will / to draw a forced analogy | |
| 喻 | yù | to describe sth as / an analogy / a simile / a metaphor / an allegory | |
| 妄生穿凿 | wàng shēng chuān záo | a forced analogy (idiom) / to jump to an unwarranted conclusion | |
| 类比策略 | lèi bǐ cè lu:è | analogy strategies | |
| 类比错误 | lèi bǐ cuò wù | analogy error | |
| 官二代 | guān èr dài | children of officials / word created by analogy with 富二代[fu4 er4 dai4] | |
| 鄙视链 | bǐ shì liàn | a ranking of items in a particular category, with the most highly regarded on top (neologism c. 2012, coined by analogy with 食物鏈|食物链[shi2 wu4 lian4], food chain) | |
| 入关学 | rù guān xué | theory proposed in 2019 on Chinese social media, centering on the idea of China replacing the United States as the dominant nation in a new world order, drawing an analogy with the Manchu overthrow of the Ming dynasty, achieved after the Qing army entered China via the Shanhai Pass 入關|入关[ru4 guan1] | |
| 校闹 | xiào nào | disruptive activities targeted at a school by an aggrieved party (neologism formed by analogy with 醫鬧|医闹[yi1 nao4]) | |
| 洗稿 | xǐ gǎo | to modify a text so it can be plagiarized without detection (neologism c. 2014, formed by analogy with 洗錢|洗钱[xi3 qian2], to launder money) | |
