维妙维肖

維妙維肖

wéimiàowéixiào

idiom #98,104

Meanings

Zhè wèi huàjiā bǎ rénwù huà de wéimiào wéixiào.

This painter renders people remarkably true to life.

Tā mófǎng lǎoshī de yǔqì wéimiào wéixiào, quán bān 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