不言而喻……

bù yán ér yù...

it goes without saying that... (不言而喻……)

不言而喻 means “it goes without saying.” It presents a truth as self-evident.

Anchor example

不言而喻，教育公平关系到社会发展。

Bù yán ér yù, jiàoyù gōngpíng guānxì dào shèhuì fāzhǎn.

It goes without saying that educational fairness is related to social development.

HSK 7

1 structures

20 exercises

Lesson summary

Read the sample sentence and notice how 不言而喻…… works in the frame: 不言而喻，A.

Explanation

This idiom is formal and often used for values, principles, or broad social truths. Compared with 显而易见, it emphasizes that explanation is unnecessary rather than that evidence is visually obvious.

Structure Patterns

1 structures

Grammar pattern

不言而喻，A

marks a truth as self-evident and needing no explanation

不言而喻，教育公平关系到社会发展。

Bù yán ér yù, jiàoyù gōngpíng guānxì dào shèhuì fāzhǎn.

It goes without saying that educational fairness is related to social development.

Common Mistakes

Writing 不言而语.Use the fixed idiom 不言而喻.
Using it for controversial claims.It should introduce something broadly self-evident.

Usage Notes

Formal idiom.
Often used for principles and broad truths.
喻 means “understand,” not “language.”

Practice

20 exercises

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Fill in the blank:

____，教育公平关系到社会发展。

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