百尺竿头
bǎi chǐ gān tóu
Pinyin

Definition

百尺竿头
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bǎi chǐ gān tóu
  1. to be at the highest level of enlightenment (Buddhist expression)

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

一呼百应
yī hū bǎi yìng
  1. 1 a hundred answers to a single call (idiom)
  2. 2 to respond en masse
百
Bǎi
  1. 1 surname Bai
百姓
bǎi xìng
  1. 1 common people
百度
Bǎi dù
  1. 1 Baidu, Internet portal and search engine, www.baidu.com, listed as BIDU on NASDAQ since 1999
百万
bǎi wàn
  1. 1 million
  2. 2 millions
二百五
èr bǎi wǔ
  1. 1 idiot
  2. 2 stupid person
  3. 3 a dope
千奇百怪
qiān qí bǎi guài
  1. 1 fantastic oddities of every description (idiom)
千方百计
qiān fāng bǎi jì
  1. 1 lit. thousand ways, a hundred plans (idiom); by every possible means
千疮百孔
qiān chuāng bǎi kǒng
  1. 1 see 百孔千瘡|百孔千疮[bǎi kǒng qiān chuāng]
咫尺
zhǐ chǐ
  1. 1 very close
  2. 2 very near
尺
chě
  1. 1 one of the characters used to represent a musical note in gongche notation, 工尺譜|工尺谱[gōng chě pǔ]
尺寸
chǐ cun
  1. 1 size
  2. 2 dimension
  3. 3 measurement
尺度
chǐ dù
  1. 1 scale
  2. 2 yardstick
尺码
chǐ mǎ
  1. 1 size
  2. 2 fitting (of apparel)
数百
shù bǎi
  1. 1 several hundred
百事可乐
Bǎi shì Kě lè
  1. 1 Pepsi
百依百顺
bǎi yī bǎi shùn
  1. 1 docile and obedient
  2. 2 all obedience
百分之百
bǎi fēn zhī bǎi
  1. 1 a hundred percent
  2. 2 out and out
  3. 3 absolutely
百分百
bǎi fēn bǎi
  1. 1 one hundred percent
  2. 2 totally (effective)
百分点
bǎi fēn diǎn
  1. 1 percentage point

Idioms (20)

一传十，十传百
yī chuán shí , shí chuán bǎi
  1. 1 news pass quickly from mouth to mouth (idiom)
  2. 2 an infectious disease spreads quickly (old meaning)
一呼百应
yī hū bǎi yìng
  1. 1 a hundred answers to a single call (idiom)
  2. 2 to respond en masse
一呼百诺
yī hū bǎi nuò
  1. 1 one command brings a hundred responses (idiom); having hundreds of attendants at one's beck and call
一通百通
yī tōng bǎi tōng
  1. 1 grasp this fundamental point and all the rest will follow (idiom)
三百六十行
sān bǎi liù shí háng
  1. 1 all walks of life (idiom)
  2. 2 every trade
五十步笑百步
wǔ shí bù xiào bǎi bù
  1. 1 the one who has retreated 50 steps laughs at the one who has retreated 100 steps (idiom)
  2. 2 the pot calls the kettle black
五百年前是一家
wǔ bǎi nián qián shì yī jiā
  1. 1 five hundred years ago we were the same family (idiom) (said of persons with the same surname)
信心百倍
xìn xīn bǎi bèi
  1. 1 brimming with confidence (idiom)
冰冻三尺，非一日之寒
bīng dòng sān chǐ , fēi yī rì zhī hán
  1. 1 three feet of ice does not form in a single day (idiom); Rome wasn't built in a day
十年树木，百年树人
shí nián shù mù , bǎi nián shù rén
  1. 1 It takes ten years to nurture a tree, but a hundred years to train a man (idiom). A good education program takes a long time to develop.
千依百顺
qiān yī bǎi shùn
  1. 1 totally submissive (idiom)
千奇百怪
qiān qí bǎi guài
  1. 1 fantastic oddities of every description (idiom)
千姿百态
qiān zī bǎi tài
  1. 1 in different poses and with different expressions
  2. 2 in thousands of postures (idiom)
千方百计
qiān fāng bǎi jì
  1. 1 lit. thousand ways, a hundred plans (idiom); by every possible means
千锤百炼
qiān chuí bǎi liàn
  1. 1 after hard work and numerous revisions (idiom)
  2. 2 the vicissitudes of life
咫尺天涯
zhǐ chǐ tiān yá
  1. 1 so close, yet worlds apart (idiom)
垂涎三尺
chuí xián sān chǐ
  1. 1 to drool (over) (idiom)
  2. 2 to yearn for
  3. 3 to covet
  4. 4 to crave
得寸进尺
dé cùn jìn chǐ
  1. 1 lit. win an inch, want a foot (idiom); fig. not satisfied with small gains
  2. 2 give him an inch, and he'll want a mile
愁肠百结
chóu cháng bǎi jié
  1. 1 hundred knots of worry in one's intestines (idiom); weighed down with anxiety
惩一儆百
chéng yī jǐng bǎi
  1. 1 lit. punish one, warn one hundred (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to make an example of sb

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