罷黜百家，獨尊儒術

Dismiss the hundred schools, revere only the Confucian (idiom) / sole dominant ideology

to stop / to cease / to dismiss / to suspend / to quit / to finish

(final particle, same as 吧)

to dismiss from office / to ban / to reject

to dismiss from office / to expel

hundred / numerous / all kinds of

many schools of thought / many people or households

see 傢伙|家伙[jia1 huo5]

home / family / (polite) my (sister, uncle etc) / classifier for families or businesses / refers to the philosophical schools of pre-Han China / noun suffix for a specialist in some activity, such as a musician or revolutionary, corresponding to English -ist, -er, -ary or -ian / CL:個|个[ge4]

alone / independent / single / sole / only

to revere as sole orthodoxy / to hold supremacy (of a religion, ideology, cultural norm, social group etc) / to be dominant

senior / of a senior generation / to honor / to respect / honorific / classifier for cannons and statues / ancient wine vessel

scholar / Confucian

dismiss the hundred schools, revere only the Confucians (slogan of the Former Han dynasty)

method / technique

various genera of flowers of Asteracea family (daisies and chrysanthemums), including Atractylis lancea