"勢如破竹" meaning in Chinese

See 勢如破竹 in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Phrase

IPA: /ʂʐ̩⁵¹ ʐu³⁵ pʰu̯ɔ⁵¹ ʈ͡ʂu³⁵/ [Mandarin, Standard-Chinese, Sinological-IPA], /sɐi̯³³ jyː²¹ pʰɔː³³ t͡sʊk̚⁵/ [Cantonese, Guangzhou, Sinological-IPA] Forms: 势如破竹 [Simplified-Chinese]
Head templates: {{head|zh|idiom}} 勢如破竹
  1. like a hot knife cutting through butter; with irresistible force Tags: idiomatic
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "势如破竹",
      "tags": [
        "Simplified-Chinese"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "zh",
        "2": "idiom"
      },
      "expansion": "勢如破竹",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Chinese",
  "lang_code": "zh",
  "literal_meaning": "like splitting bamboo",
  "pos": "phrase",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Cantonese chengyu",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Chinese chengyu",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Mandarin chengyu",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "like a hot knife cutting through butter; with irresistible force"
      ],
      "id": "en-勢如破竹-zh-phrase-fOTsJKPs",
      "links": [
        [
          "like",
          "like"
        ],
        [
          "hot",
          "hot"
        ],
        [
          "knife",
          "knife"
        ],
        [
          "cutting",
          "cutting"
        ],
        [
          "through",
          "through"
        ],
        [
          "butter",
          "butter"
        ],
        [
          "with",
          "with"
        ],
        [
          "irresistible",
          "irresistible"
        ],
        [
          "force",
          "force"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "shìrúpòzhú"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ㄕˋ ㄖㄨˊ ㄆㄛˋ ㄓㄨˊ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "sai³ jyu⁴ po³ zuk¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "shìrúpòzhú"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ㄕˋ ㄖㄨˊ ㄆㄛˋ ㄓㄨˊ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "shìhrúpòjhú"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Wade-Giles"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "shih⁴-ju²-pʻo⁴-chu²"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "shr̀-rú-pwò-jú"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "shyhrupohjwu"
    },
    {
      "roman": "šižupočžu",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "шижупочжу"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ʂʐ̩⁵¹ ʐu³⁵ pʰu̯ɔ⁵¹ ʈ͡ʂu³⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "sai³ jyu⁴ po³ zuk¹"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "sai yùh po jūk"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "sai³ jy⁴ po³ dzuk⁷"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "sei³ yu⁴ po³ zug¹"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/sɐi̯³³ jyː²¹ pʰɔː³³ t͡sʊk̚⁵/",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "勢如破竹"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "势如破竹",
      "tags": [
        "Simplified-Chinese"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "zh",
        "2": "idiom"
      },
      "expansion": "勢如破竹",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Chinese",
  "lang_code": "zh",
  "literal_meaning": "like splitting bamboo",
  "pos": "phrase",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Cantonese chengyu",
        "Cantonese idioms",
        "Cantonese lemmas",
        "Chinese chengyu",
        "Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
        "Chinese idioms",
        "Chinese lemmas",
        "Chinese terms spelled with 勢",
        "Chinese terms spelled with 如",
        "Chinese terms spelled with 破",
        "Chinese terms spelled with 竹",
        "Chinese terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Mandarin chengyu",
        "Mandarin idioms",
        "Mandarin lemmas",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "like a hot knife cutting through butter; with irresistible force"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "like",
          "like"
        ],
        [
          "hot",
          "hot"
        ],
        [
          "knife",
          "knife"
        ],
        [
          "cutting",
          "cutting"
        ],
        [
          "through",
          "through"
        ],
        [
          "butter",
          "butter"
        ],
        [
          "with",
          "with"
        ],
        [
          "irresistible",
          "irresistible"
        ],
        [
          "force",
          "force"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "shìrúpòzhú"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ㄕˋ ㄖㄨˊ ㄆㄛˋ ㄓㄨˊ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "sai³ jyu⁴ po³ zuk¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "shìrúpòzhú"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ㄕˋ ㄖㄨˊ ㄆㄛˋ ㄓㄨˊ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "shìhrúpòjhú"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Wade-Giles"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "shih⁴-ju²-pʻo⁴-chu²"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "shr̀-rú-pwò-jú"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "shyhrupohjwu"
    },
    {
      "roman": "šižupočžu",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "шижупочжу"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ʂʐ̩⁵¹ ʐu³⁵ pʰu̯ɔ⁵¹ ʈ͡ʂu³⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "sai³ jyu⁴ po³ zuk¹"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "sai yùh po jūk"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "sai³ jy⁴ po³ dzuk⁷"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "sei³ yu⁴ po³ zug¹"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/sɐi̯³³ jyː²¹ pʰɔː³³ t͡sʊk̚⁵/",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "勢如破竹"
}

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