百家
bǎi jiā
Pinyin

Definition

百家
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bǎi jiā
  1. many schools of thought
  2. many people or households

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)
一呼百应
yī hū bǎi yìng
  1. 1 a hundred answers to a single call (idiom)
  2. 2 to respond en masse

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

Sample Sentences

没错，我就记得以前读书的时候，班上同时会有好几个李丽，王平。因为这些姓和名都太常见了。特别是百家姓中的几个大姓，更加容易重名，同姓的人实在太多。
méicuò ，wǒ jiù jìde yǐqián dúshū de shíhou ，bān shàng tóngshí huì yǒu hǎo jǐ ge Lǐ lì ，Wáng Píng 。yīnwèi zhèxiē xìng hé míng dōu tài chángjiàn le 。tèbiéshì bǎijiāxìng zhōng de jǐ ge dà xìng ，gèngjiā róngyì chóngmíng ，tóngxìng de rén shízài tài duō 。
That's right. I remember when I was in school, I had quite a few classmates named Li Li, Wang Ping...Because these names are so common. That's especially true for the hundred most common names. It's even easier to see the same name. There are so many people with the same surname.
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