势如破竹 Save Create a free account to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 勢如破竹 shìrúpòzhú ㄕˋ ㄖㄨˊ ㄆㄛˋ ㄓㄨˊ 男 女 like a hot knife through butter (idiom) with irresistible force Character by character 势(shì)power 如(rú)as 破(pò)broken 竹(zhú)bamboo Sign up for a free account to save words and review them A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0