士农工商 (士農工商)
shì nóng gōng shāng
Pinyin

Definition

士农工商 (士農工商)
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shì nóng gōng shāng
  1. "the four classes" of ancient China, i.e. scholars, farmers, artisans, and merchants

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

员工
yuán gōng
  1. 1 staff
  2. 2 personnel
  3. 3 employee
商城
Shāng chéng
工作
gōng zuò
  1. 1 to work
  2. 2 (of a machine) to operate
  3. 3 job
  4. 4 work
  5. 5 task
  6. 6 classifier: 个 gè
  7. 7 classifier: 份 fèn
  8. 8 classifier: 项 xiàng
工具
gōng jù
  1. 1 tool
  2. 2 instrument
  3. 3 utensil
  4. 4 means (to achieve a goal etc)
工资
gōng zī
  1. 1 wages
  2. 2 pay
  3. 3 classifier: 个 gè
  4. 4 classifier: 份 fèn
  5. 5 classifier: 月 yuè

Idioms (20)

仁人志士
rén rén zhì shì
  1. 1 gentleman aspiring to benevolence (idiom); people with lofty ideals
仁人义士
rén rén yì shì
  1. 1 those with lofty ideals (idiom)
  2. 2 men of vision
偷工减料
tōu gōng jiǎn liào
  1. 1 to skimp on the job and stint on materials (idiom)
  2. 2 jerry-building
  3. 3 sloppy work
博士买驴
bó shì mǎi lǘ
  1. 1 lit. the scholar buys a donkey (idiom); fig. long-winded verbiage that never gets to the point
  2. 2 idiom mocking scholastic pomposity
含商咀徵
hán shāng jǔ zhǐ
  1. 1 permeated with beautiful music (idiom)