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飞入寻常百姓家

飛入尋常百姓家
fēirùxúnchángbǎixìngjiā
phrase

Meanings

  1. 1 to fly into the homes of ordinary folk
  2. 2 to become accessible to the common people / to spread from the elite to the masses

Examples

智能手机已经飞入寻常百姓家。
Zhìnéng shǒujī yǐjīng fēi rù xúncháng bǎixìng jiā.
Smartphones have already made their way into ordinary households.
随着价格下降，新能源汽车逐渐飞入寻常百姓家。
Suízhe jiàgé xiàjiàng, xīn néngyuán qìchē zhújiàn fēi rù xúncháng bǎixìng jiā.
As prices drop, new-energy vehicles are gradually entering ordinary people's homes.

Tips

history
From Liu Yuxi's (刘禹锡) Tang poem 《乌衣巷》: 朱雀桥边野草花，乌衣巷口夕阳斜。旧时王谢堂前燕，飞入寻常百姓家 — 'Wild flowers by Zhuque Bridge, slanting sun at Wuyi Lane. The swallows that once nested in the halls of Wang and Xie now fly into ordinary people's homes.' The Wang and Xie were the grandest aristocratic clans of the Jin dynasty; the poem meditates on how their glory has vanished.
usage
Modern usage drops the elegiac tone and keeps only the 'from elite to masses' meaning — now a standard phrase for technology or luxury goods going mainstream.

Stroke Order

飞 fēi
入 rù
寻 xún
常 cháng
百 bǎi
姓 xìng
家 jiā