势不可当 — Chinese idiom
势不可当
shì bù kě dāng
Traditional: 勢不可當
Meaning
- impossible to resist ; an irresistible force
Character by character
- 势shìpower, force; tendency, attitude
- 不bùno, not, un-; negative prefix
- 可kěmay, can, -able; possibly
- 当dāngappropriate, timely; to act, to serve; the sound o
Idioms sharing a character
- 人多势众 rén duō shì zhòng
- 仗势欺人 zhàng shì qī rén
- 做张做势 zuò zhāng zuò shì
- 势不两立 shì bù liǎng lì
- 势单力薄 shì dān lì bó
- 势在必得 shì zài bì dé
- 势在必行 shì zài bì xíng
- 势均力敌 shì jūn lì dí
- 势如破竹 shì rú pò zhú
- 势成骑虎 shì chéng qí hǔ
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