一呼百应
yī hū bǎi yìng
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Traditional: 一呼百應
One person calls and a crowd answers: an appeal is taken up at once by a great many people. Said of someone, usually a leader, with real influence and popular support.
Một người hô, trăm người hưởng ứng: lời kêu gọi vừa đưa ra đã được rất nhiều người làm theo. Thường nói về người có uy tín, được lòng nhiều người.
Register: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 062 (2026-11-13). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ · Vietnamese cognate: Idiomer entry “nhất hô bá ứng” (nhat-ho-ba-ung). Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Equivalents & related
Common questions
What does “一呼百应” mean?
One person calls and a crowd answers: an appeal is taken up at once by a great many people. Said of someone, usually a leader, with real influence and popular support. Literally: one calls, a hundred respond
Is “一呼百应” formal or informal?
一呼百应 is generally neutral.