like a hot knife through butter (idiom); with irresistible force
trad. 勢如破竹
Also written 勢如破竹【shì rú pò zhú】
Characters in this word
4势
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power, influence, potential, momentum, tendency, trend, situation, conditions, outward appearance, sign, gesture, male genitals
- Pinyin
- shì
- Traditional
- 勢
- Strokes
- 8
如
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as, as if, such as
- Pinyin
- rú
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 1252 of 2500
破
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broken, damaged, worn out, lousy, rotten, to break, split or cleave, to get rid of, to destroy, to break with, to defeat, to capture (a city etc), to expose the truth of
- Pinyin
- pò
- Strokes
- 10
- Frequency
- 2217 of 2500
竹
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(bound form) bamboo, Kangxi radical 118
- Pinyin
- zhú
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 30927 of 2500