Meaning
sānjiàojiǔliúsan1 jiao4 jiu3 liu2
- the Three Religions (Daoism, Confucianism, Buddhism) and Nine Schools (Confucians, Daoists, Yin-Yang, Legalists, Logicians, Mohists, Political Strategists, Eclectics, Agriculturists)
- fig. people from all trades (often derog.)
Words sharing a character
- 三角 sānjiǎo triangle
- 再三 zàisān over and over again
- 三明治 sānmíngzhì sandwich (loanword)
- 三维 sānwéi three-dimensional
- 接二连三 jiēèrliánsān one after another (idiom)
- 三番五次 sānfānwǔcì over and over again (idiom)
- 举一反三 jǔyīfǎnsān to raise one and infer three
- 丢三落四 diūsānlàsì forgetful
- 朝三暮四 zhāosānmùsì lit. say three in the morning but four in the evening (idiom); to change sth that is already settled upon
- 教育 jiàoyù to educate