罢黜百家，独尊儒术
Traditional form:
罷黜百家，獨尊儒術
Pinyin (reading):
bàchùbǎijiā,dúzūnrúshù
Definitions:
- Dismiss the hundred schools, revere only the Confucian (idiom)
- sole dominant ideology
Characters:
- 罢 - to cease, to finish, to stop, to quit
- 黜 - to dismiss; to downgrade, to demote
- 百 - one hundred; numerous, many
- 家 - house, home, residence; family
- 独 - alone, independent, only, single, solitary
- 尊 - to honor, to respect, to venerate
- 儒 - Confucian scholar
- 术 - skill, art; method, technique; trick
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