维妙维肖

維妙維肖

wéimiào-wéixiào

idiom #98,104

Meanings

HSK 5

这位画家把人物画得维妙维肖。

Zhèwèi huàjiā bǎ rénwù huà de wéimiào-wéixiào.

This painter renders people remarkably true to life.

HSK 7-9

他模仿老师的语气维妙维肖，全班都笑了。

Tā mófǎng lǎoshī de yǔqì wéimiào-wéixiào, quánbān dōu xiào le.

He mimicked the teacher's tone perfectly, and the whole class laughed.

memory

维 here is just a literary particle ('truly'). Lock onto 妙 (wonderful) + 肖 (resembling), 'wonderfully resembling.' Also written 惟妙惟肖.

mistakes

肖 here is xiào (4th tone, 'resemble'), not the surname xiāo. Saying wéimiào-wéi-xiāo gives away you don't know the idiom.

维 wéi

妙 miào

肖 xiào