百尺竿头

bǎi chǐ gān tóu

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

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Words Containing 百尺竿头

• 百尺竿头，更进一步 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)

Child Words of 百尺竿头

• 尺 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 尺 chǐ: a Chinese foot
• 百 百 bǎi: hundred
• 头 头 tóu: head
• 竿 竿 gān: pole
• 竿头 竿头 gān tóu: bamboo pole's uppermost tip