半百
bàn bǎi
Pinyin
Definition
半百
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- fifty (usually referring to sb's age)
Character Decomposition
Idioms (20)
一传十,十传百
- 1 news pass quickly from mouth to mouth (idiom)
- 2 an infectious disease spreads quickly (old meaning)
一呼百应
- 1 a hundred answers to a single call (idiom)
- 2 to respond en masse
一呼百诺
- 1 one command brings a hundred responses (idiom); having hundreds of attendants at one's beck and call
一瓶子不响,半瓶子晃荡
- 1 lit. a full bottle makes no sound; a half-filled bottle sloshes (idiom)
- 2 fig. empty vessels make the most noise
一知半解
- 1 lit. to know one and understand half (idiom); a smattering of knowledge
- 2 dilettante
- 3 amateur