百里挑一

one in a hundred / cream of the crop

hundred / numerous / all kinds of

two-character surname Baili

variant of 裡|里[li3]

lining / interior / inside / internal / also written 裏|里[li3]

li, ancient measure of length, approx. 500 m / neighborhood / ancient administrative unit of 25 families / (Tw) borough, administrative unit between the township 鎮|镇[zhen4] and neighborhood 鄰|邻[lin2] levels

to carry on a shoulder pole / to choose / to pick / to nitpick

to raise / to dig up / to poke / to prick / to incite / to stir up

one / single / a (article) / as soon as / entire; whole; all; throughout / "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1) / also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit