攘夷
rǎng yí
Pinyin
Definition
攘夷
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- to repel the barbarians
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 Hawaii, US state
- 1 Mt Wuyi in Fujian
- 2 Wuyishan nature reserve
- 3 Wuyishan county level city in Nanping 南平[Nán píng] Fujian
- 1 unimaginable
- 2 outrageous
- 3 freakish
- 1 macadamia nut
- 1 non-Han people, esp. to the East of China
- 2 barbarians
- 3 to wipe out
- 4 to exterminate
- 5 to tear down
- 6 to raze
Idioms (7)
以夷制夷
- 1 to use foreigners to subdue foreigners (idiom); let the barbarians fight it out among themselves (traditional policy of successive dynasties)
- 2 Use Western science and technology to counter imperialist encroachment. (late Qing modernizing slogan)
兵戈扰攘
- 1 arms and confusion (idiom); turmoil of war
化险为夷
- 1 to turn peril into safety (idiom); to avert disaster
履险如夷
- 1 lit. to make one's way through a dangerous pass as if walking on level ground (idiom)
- 2 fig. to handle a crisis effortlessly
攘外安内
- 1 to resist foreign aggression and pacify the interior of the country (idiom)