Category:Chinese figures of speech

Chinese terms whose interpretation is not strictly literal, but are used in figurative ways or for special effect.

• Category:Chinese dysphemisms: Chinese dysphemisms (offensive, vulgar or otherwise negative terms used in place of a neutral alternative).
• Category:Chinese euphemisms: Chinese terms that indirectly refer to something unpleasant or controversial.
• Category:Chinese hyperboles: Chinese terms used as exaggerations for emphasis, rather than being taken literally.
• Category:Chinese idioms: Chinese phrases understood by subjective, as opposed to literal meanings.
• Category:Chinese litotes: Chinese litotical expressions or terms commonly used in litotes (stating something by denying its opposite).
• Category:Chinese proverbs: Chinese phrases popularly known as representations of common sense.
• Category:Chinese sarcastic terms: Chinese terms that are used sarcastically.
• Category:Chinese similes: Chinese figures of speech in which one thing is compared to another.
• Category:Chinese synecdoches: Chinese figures of speech in which a term for a part of something is used to refer to the whole pars pro toto, or vice versa totum pro parte.