家喻户晓
Simplified word
家喻戶曉
Traditional word
家喻户晓 English definition
jiā yù hù xiǎo
- understood by everyone (idiom)
- well known
- a household name
jiā yù hù xiǎo
- understood by everyone (idiom)
- well known
- a household name
HSK level
Characters
- 家 (jiā): home; family; (polite) my (sister, uncle etc); classifier for families or businesses; refers to the philosophical schools of pre-Han China; noun suffix for a specialist in some activity, such as a musician or revolutionary, corresponding to English -ist, -er, -ary or -ian; CL:個|个[ge4];
- 喻 (yù): to describe sth as; an analogy; a simile; a metaphor; an allegory;
- 户 (hù): a household; door; family;
- 晓 (xiǎo): dawn; daybreak; to know; to let sb know; to make explicit;