棒喝
bàng hè
Pinyin

Definition

棒喝
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bàng hè
  1. practice in which a novice monk is shouted at or hit with a stick with the purpose of bringing about instant awakening (Buddhism)
  2. to rebuke sternly

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

  1. 1 to drink
  2. 2 variant of 嗬[hē]
chī hē
  1. 1 to eat and drink
  2. 2 food and drink
chī hē wán lè
  1. 1 to eat, drink and be merry (idiom)
  2. 2 to abandon oneself to a life of pleasure
hē jiǔ
  1. 1 to drink (alcohol)
hē zuì
  1. 1 to get drunk
dà chī dà hē
  1. 1 to eat and drink as much as one likes
  2. 2 to make a pig of oneself
hǎo hē
  1. 1 tasty (drinks)
hǎo bàng
  1. 1 excellent (interjection)
bàng
  1. 1 stick
  2. 2 club
  3. 3 cudgel
  4. 4 smart
  5. 5 capable
  6. 6 strong
  7. 7 wonderful
  8. 8 classifier for legs of a relay race
bàng zi
  1. 1 stick
  2. 2 club
  3. 3 cudgel
  4. 4 maize (corn)
  5. 5 ear of maize
  6. 6 corncob
  7. 7 (derog.) Korean
zhēn bàng
  1. 1 super!
  2. 2 really great
  3. 3 wonderful
yī jí bàng
  1. 1 first-rate
  2. 2 excellent (loanword from Japanese 一番, ichiban)
bèi r5 bàng
  1. 1 (dialect) awesome
  2. 2 excellent
bīng bàng
  1. 1 popsicle
  2. 2 ice pop
  3. 3 CL:根[gēn]
chī hē piáo dǔ
  1. 1 to go dining, wining, whoring and gambling
  2. 2 to lead a life of dissipation
chī hē lā sā shuì
  1. 1 to eat, drink, shit, piss, and sleep
  2. 2 (fig.) the ordinary daily routine
chī xiāng hē là
  1. 1 lit. to eat delicious food and drink hard liquor (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to live well
yāo wǔ hè liù
  1. 1 lit. to shout out hoping for fives and sixes when gambling with dice; a hubbub of gambling
yāo he
  1. 1 to shout
  2. 2 to bawl
  3. 3 to yell (to urge on an animal)
  4. 4 to hawk (one's wares)
  5. 5 to denounce loudly
  6. 6 to shout slogans
hē hè
  1. 1 to shout loudly
  2. 2 to bellow
  3. 3 to berate

Idioms (6)

三个和尚没水喝
sān gè hé shang méi shuǐ hē
  1. 1 lit. three monks have no water to drink (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. everybody's business is nobody's business
  3. 3 (If there is one monk, he will fetch water for himself. If there are two, they will fetch water together. But if there are three or more, none will take it upon himself to fetch water.)
吃喝玩乐
chī hē wán lè
  1. 1 to eat, drink and be merry (idiom)
  2. 2 to abandon oneself to a life of pleasure
吃香喝辣
chī xiāng hē là
  1. 1 lit. to eat delicious food and drink hard liquor (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to live well
呼来喝去
hū lái hè qù
  1. 1 to call to come and shout to go (idiom); to yell orders
  2. 2 always bossing people around
喝西北风
hē xī běi fēng
  1. 1 lit. drink the northwest wind (idiom); cold and hungry
开锣喝道
kāi luó hè dào
  1. 1 to clear a street by banging gongs and shouting loudly (idiom)

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