家喻户晓 (家喻戶曉)
jiā yù hù xiǎo
Pinyin

Definition

家喻户晓 (家喻戶曉)
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jiā yù hù xiǎo
  1. understood by everyone (idiom); well known
  2. a household name

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

家
jiā
  1. 1 see also: 家伙 jiā huo
回家
huí jiā
  1. 1 to return home
大家
dà jiā
  1. 1 everyone
  2. 2 influential family
  3. 3 great expert
玩家
wán jiā
  1. 1 player (of a game)
  2. 2 enthusiast (audio, model planes etc)
人家
rén jiā
  1. 1 household
  2. 2 dwelling
  3. 3 family
  4. 4 sb else's house
  5. 5 household business
  6. 6 house of woman's husband-to-be
  7. 7 classifier: 户 hù
  8. 8 classifier: 家 jiā

Idioms (20)

不可理喻
bù kě lǐ yù
  1. 1 to be impervious to reason (idiom)
  2. 2 unreasonable
不可言喻
bù kě yán yù
  1. 1 inexpressible (idiom)
不是一家人不进一家门
bù shì yī jiā rén bù jìn yī jiā mén
  1. 1 people who don't belong together, don't get to live together (idiom)
  2. 2 marriages are predestined
  3. 3 people marry because they share common traits
不是冤家不聚头
bù shì yuān jiā bù jù tóu
  1. 1 destiny will make enemies meet (idiom)
  2. 2 (often said about lovers who have a disagreement)
不当家不知柴米贵
bù dāng jiā bù zhī chái mǐ guì
  1. 1 a person who doesn't manage a household would not be aware how expensive it is (idiom)

Sample Sentences

没错，金马奖创办之初，主要以电懋和邵氏两大电影公司的作品为主，出现了李翰祥这样家喻户晓的大明星和李行这样的大导演。
méicuò ，jīnmǎjiǎng chuàngbàn zhīchū ，zhǔyào yǐ diànmào hé shàoshì liǎng dà diànyǐng gōngsī de zuòpǐn wéizhǔ ，chūxiàn le Lǐ Hànxiáng zhèyàng jiāyùhùxiǎo de dà míngxīng hé Lǐ Xíng zhèyàng de dà dǎoyǎn 。
That's right. When the Golden Horse Awards were founded, they mainly awarded the works of the Dian Mao Film Company and the Shaw Brothers Studio. That's when household names like Li Han-hsiang appeared as well as big directors like Li Hsing.
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