百尺竿头

bǎi chǐ gān tóu

Definitionen

1. to be at the highest level of enlightenment (Buddhist expression)

Wörter, die 百尺竿头 enthalten

• 百尺竿头，更进一步 bǎi chǐ gān tóu , gèng jìn yī bù: lit. after climbing a hundred feet up a pole, one should go even further (idiom)

Bestandteilwörter von 百尺竿头

• 尺 chě: one of the characters used to represent a musical note in gongche notation, 工尺譜|工尺谱[gōng chě pǔ]
• 尺 chǐ: a Chinese foot
• 百 bǎi: hundred
• 头 tóu: head
• 竿 gān: pole
• 竿头 gān tóu: bamboo pole's uppermost tip