飞入寻常百姓家

飛入尋常百姓家

fēi rù xúncháng bǎixìng jiā

quotation

Meanings

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

Characters

common (寻常 = ordinary)

surname (百姓 = common folk)

Examples

HSK 5

智能手机已经飞入寻常百姓家。

Zhìnéng shǒujī yǐjīng fēirùxúnchángbǎixìngjiā.

Smartphones have already made their way into ordinary households.

HSK 6

随着价格下降，新能源汽车逐渐飞入寻常百姓家。

Suízhe jiàgé xiàjiàng, xīnnéngyuán qìchē zhújiàn fēirùxúnchángbǎixìngjiā.

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》: 旧时王谢堂前燕，飞入寻常百姓家 - '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