微言大義

subtle words with profound meaning (idiom)

surname Wei / ancient Chinese state near present day Chongqing / Taiwan pr. [Wei2]

tiny / miniature / slightly / profound / abtruse / to decline / one millionth part of / micro- / Taiwan pr. [wei2]

words / speech / to say / to talk

see 大夫[dai4 fu5]

big; large; great / older (than another person) / eldest (as in 大姐[da4 jie3]) / greatly; freely; fully / (dialect) father / (dialect) uncle (father's brother)

righteousness / virtuous cause / a woman's marriage / main points of a piece of writing

surname Yi / (Tw) abbr. for 義大利|义大利[Yi4 da4 li4], Italy

justice / righteousness / meaning / foster (father etc) / adopted / artificial (tooth, limb etc) / relationship / friendship