百花齐放
bǎi huā qí fàng
Pinyin

Definition

百花齐放
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bǎi huā qí fàng
  1. a hundred flowers bloom (idiom); let the arts have free 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
奔放
bēn fàng
  1. 1 bold and unrestrained
  2. 2 untrammeled
放
fàng
  1. 1 to put
  2. 2 to place
  3. 3 to release
  4. 4 to free
  5. 5 to let go
  6. 6 to let out
  7. 7 to set off (fireworks)
放下
fàng xià
  1. 1 to lay down
  2. 2 to put down
  3. 3 to let go of
  4. 4 to relinquish
  5. 5 to set aside
  6. 6 to lower (the blinds etc)
放假
fàng jià
  1. 1 to have a holiday or vacation
放弃
fàng qì
  1. 1 to renounce
  2. 2 to abandon
  3. 3 to give up
烟花
yān huā
  1. 1 fireworks
  2. 2 prostitute (esp. in Yuan theater)
百
Bǎi
  1. 1 surname Bai
花
Huā
  1. 1 surname Hua
雪花
xuě huā
  1. 1 snowflake
二百五
èr bǎi wǔ
  1. 1 idiot
  2. 2 stupid person
  3. 3 a dope
五花肉
wǔ huā ròu
  1. 1 pork belly
  2. 2 streaky pork
印花
yìn huā
  1. 1 tax stamp
回放
huí fàng
  1. 1 to replay
  2. 2 to play back
大丽花
dà lì huā
  1. 1 dahlia (loanword)
天花板
tiān huā bǎn
  1. 1 ceiling
如花
rú huā
  1. 1 flowery
存放
cún fàng
  1. 1 to deposit
  2. 2 to store
  3. 3 to leave in sb's care
安放
ān fàng
  1. 1 to lay
  2. 2 to place
  3. 3 to put in a certain place
心花怒放
xīn huā nù fàng
  1. 1 to burst with joy (idiom)
  2. 2 to be over the moon
  3. 3 to be elated

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)
借花献佛
jiè huā xiàn Fó
  1. 1 lit. presenting the Buddha with borrowed flowers (idiom); fig. to win favor or influence using sb else's property
  2. 2 plagiarism
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
名花有主
míng huā yǒu zhǔ
  1. 1 the girl is already taken (idiom)
大放光明
dà fàng guāng míng
  1. 1 great release of light (idiom)
大放厥辞
dà fàng jué cí
  1. 1 great release of talk (idiom); to spout nonsense
天花乱坠
tiān huā luàn zhuì
  1. 1 lit. a deluge of heavenly flowers (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. extravagant embellishments
  3. 3 hype
奇花异卉
qí huā yì huì
  1. 1 exotic flowers and rare herbs (idiom)

Sample Sentences

可不是嘛，像我这样雍容富态的女神才能显示出我们国富民强，文艺自由奔放，思想百花齐放，大大地旺夫，大大地兴国，大大地...呃嗯，还有什么来着？
kěbushì ma ，xiàng wǒ zhèyàng yōngróng fùtài de nǚshén cái néng xiǎnshì chū wǒmen guófùmínqiáng ，wényì zìyóu bēnfàng ，sīxiǎng bǎihuāqífàng ，dàdà de wàngfū ，dàdà de xìngguó ，dàdà de . . . è ng4 ，háiyǒu shénme láizhe ？
That's so true. Only a graceful, portly goddess like me is really able to show our country's prosperity and strength, the bold and unrestrained literature and art, with a hundred schools of thought, with rich men and wealth throughout the vast land, and... what else throughout the land?
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