- 罢黜百家 bàchùbǎijiā to dismiss all other schools of thoughtTo suppress all non-Confucian schools of thought in favor of Confucianism, as in the cultural policy of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty
- 罢黜百家,独尊儒术 bàchùbǎijiādúzūnrúshù dismiss the hundred schools and revere only ConfucianismTo ban all other schools of thought and establish Confucianism as the sole official ideology; a policy famously adopted by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.