盛行
shèng xíng
Pinyin

Definition

盛行
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shèng xíng
  1. to be in vogue
  2. to be prevalent

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

排行
pái háng
  1. 1 to rank
  2. 2 ranking
  3. 3 seniority (among siblings)
旅行
lǚ xíng
  1. 1 to travel
  2. 2 journey
  3. 3 trip
  4. 4 classifier: 趟 tàng
  5. 5 classifier: 次 cì
  6. 6 classifier: 个 gè
流行
liú xíng
  1. 1 (of a contagious disease etc) to spread
  2. 2 to propagate
  3. 3 (of a style of clothing, song etc) popular
  4. 4 fashionable
行
háng
  1. 1 row
  2. 2 line
  3. 3 commercial firm
  4. 4 line of business
  5. 5 profession
  6. 6 to rank (first, second etc) among one's siblings (by age)
  7. 7 (in data tables) row
  8. 8 (Tw) column
行动
xíng dòng
  1. 1 operation
  2. 2 action
  3. 3 classifier: 个 gè
  4. 4 to move about
  5. 5 mobile

Idioms (20)

一意孤行
yī yì gū xíng
  1. 1 obstinately clinging to one's course (idiom)
  2. 2 willful
  3. 3 one's own way
  4. 4 dogmatic
一目十行
yī mù shí háng
  1. 1 ten lines at a glance (idiom)
  2. 2 to read very rapidly
一言一行
yī yán yī xíng
  1. 1 every word and action (idiom)
三人行，必有我师
sān rén xíng , bì yǒu wǒ shī
  1. 1 lit. if three walk together, one can be my teacher (idiom, from the Analects of Confucius)
  2. 2 you have sth to learn from everyone
三句话不离本行
sān jù huà bù lí běn háng
  1. 1 to talk shop all the time (idiom)

Sample Sentences

小赵，最近互联网的创新型企业可是越来越盛行，听说你也成立了自己的公司？
Xiǎo Zhào ，zuìjìn hùliánwǎng jiā de chuàngxīnxíng qǐyè kě shì yuèláiyuè shèngxíng ，tīngshuō nǐ yě chénglì le zìjǐ de gōngsī ？
Xiaozhao, recently start-ups online are more and more popular. I hear you have also set up your own business, no?
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我也觉得是这样。前些年像情人节、圣诞节等西洋节日在中国都还不是十分盛行，这两年倒真感觉到情人节的势头来得十分迅猛了。
wǒ yě juéde shì zhèyàng 。qián xiē nián xiàng qíngrénjié 、shèngdànjié děng xīyáng jiérì zài Zhōngguó dōu hái bù shì shífēn shèngxíng ，zhè liǎng nián dào zhēn gǎnjué dào qíngrénjié de shìtóu lái de shífēn xùnměng le 。
I think so, too. A few years back, Valentine's Day, Christmas and other Western holidays weren't completely in fashion in China. But in the last few years, Valentine's Day has really come in with a vengeance!
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国粹是不假。但没以前那么盛行了。以前那些有空有闲的人，就爱上戏院。流派也多，各家各派争奇斗艳，可有看头了。
guócuì shì bù jiǎ 。dàn méi yǐqián nàme shèngxíng le 。yǐqián nàxiē yǒu kòng yǒu xián de rén ，jiù ài shàng xìyuàn 。liúpài yě duō ，gèpài zhēngqídòuyàn ，kě yǒu kàntou le 。
It is the quintessence of Chinese culture, but it's just not as in vogue as it used to be. In the past, people with a lot of time for leisure loved going to the theater. There were also a lot of theater schools. Each and every school was in competition with the others to be the best, most glamorous school.
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