之乎者也 — Chinese idiom
之乎者也
zhī hū zhě yě
Meaning
- (lit.) 之 (zhī), 乎 (hū), 者 (zhě) and 也 (yě) (four grammatical particles of Classical Chinese)
- (fig.) archaic expressions
Character by character
- 之zhīmarks preceding phrase as modifier of following ph
- 乎hūinterrogative or exclamatory final particle
- 者zhěthat which; they who; those who
- 也yěalso, too
Idioms sharing a character
- 一丘之貉 yī qiū zhī hé
- 一之为甚 yī zhī wéi shèn
- 一以贯之 yī yǐ guàn zhī
- 一孔之见 yī kǒng zhī jiàn
- 一技之长 yī jì zhī cháng
- 一日之雅 yī rì zhī yǎ
- 一箭之仇 yī jiàn zhī chóu
- 一面之缘 yī miàn zhī yuán
- 不急之务 bù jí zhī wù
- 不情之请 bù qíng zhī qǐng
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