泰山北斗 — Chinese idiom
泰山北斗
Tài shān Běi dǒu
Meaning
- (lit.) Mount Tai and the Big Dipper
- (fig.) an outstanding figure in one's field
Character by character
- 泰Tàigreat, exalted, superior; calm; big
- 山shānmountain, hill, peak
- 北Běinorth; northern; northward
- 斗dǒuto struggle, to fight, to contend; measuring cup
Idioms sharing a character
- 不识泰山 bù shí Tài Shān
- 倒持泰阿 dào chí Tài ē
- 否极泰来 pǐ jí tài lái
- 国泰民安 guó tài mín ān
- 泰然自若 tài rán zì ruò
- 泰然处之 tài rán chǔ zhī
- 重于泰山 zhòng yú Tài Shān
- 鸿毛泰山 hóng máo Tài Shān
- 鸿毛泰岱 hóng máo tài dài
- 人山人海 rén shān rén hǎi
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