罢黜百家，独尊儒术
bà​chù​bǎi​jiā​dú​zūn​rú​shù

dismiss the hundred schools and revere only Confucianism

  1. 罢黜 罷黜 bà​chù
    to ban
    To reject, ban, or suppress a school of thought or an ideology.
  2. 百家 bǎi​jiā
    schools of thought
    various schools of thought; different philosophical or intellectual traditions
  3. ， dú
    non-Chinese
  4. 独尊 獨尊 dú​zūn
    to revere as supreme
    to revere as the sole orthodoxy; to hold supremacy or be dominant, especially regarding a religion, ideology, or social group
  5. 儒术 儒術 rú​shù
    Confucianism
    the teachings, scholarship, and philosophy of the Confucian school