| 大势所趋 |
dà shì suǒ qū |
(idiom) the prevailing trend; the trend of the times; an inevitable direction |
| 大 |
dà |
big; large; great / older (than another person) / eldest (as in 大姐) / greatly; freely; fully / (dialect) father / (dialect) uncle (father's brother) |
| 大 |
dài |
see 大夫 |
| 大势 |
dà shì |
overall trend |
| 势 |
shì |
power / influence / potential / momentum / tendency / trend / situation / conditions / outward appearance / sign / gesture / male genitals |
| 所 |
suǒ |
actually / place / classifier for houses, small buildings, institutions etc / that which / particle introducing a relative clause or passive / CL:个 |
| 趋 |
qū |
to hasten / to hurry / to walk fast / to approach / to tend towards / to converge |