礼毕

禮畢
lǐbì
phrase #32,185

Meanings

  1. 1 the ceremony is concluded
  2. 2 the rites are complete (formal command at the end of a ceremony)

Examples

Sīyí xuānbù: "Lǐbì!" Quán chǎng qǐlì gǔzhǎng.
The MC announced 'Ceremony concluded!' and the whole hall stood up applauding.
Shēngqí yíshì lǐbì, xuéshēng men lùxù fǎnhuí jiàoshì.
After the flag-raising ceremony concluded, the students returned to their classrooms one after another.

Tips

register
Highly formal, almost exclusively a ritual command. You'll hear it at flag-raising ceremonies, funerals, weddings, military reviews, and other formal events to mark the close of a procedure. Not used in conversation to mean 'I'm done.'
history
Classical pattern: means 'finish, complete' (compare 完毕 'completed' and 毕业 'graduate'). 礼毕 follows the verb-final word order of literary Chinese, hence its ceremonial flavor.

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