显而易见

顯而易見

xiǎnéryìjiàn

idiom HSK 7 #6,685

Meanings

Literally 'apparent and easy to see'

Zhège wèntí de dá'àn xiǎnéryìjiàn.

The answer to this question is obvious.

Xiǎnéryìjiàn, tā zài shuōhuǎng.

Obviously, he is lying.

Quánqiú biànnuǎn de yǐngxiǎng yǐjīng xiǎnéryìjiàn.

The effects of global warming are already plain to see.

usage

显而易见 is a formal idiom often used at the start of a sentence. In casual speech, 很明显 (hěn míngxiǎn) is more common.

显 xiǎn

而 ér

易 yì

见 jiàn