攘夷
rǎng yí
Pinyin

Definition

攘夷
 - 
rǎng yí
  1. to repel the barbarians

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

Xià wēi yí
  1. 1 Hawaii, US state
Wǔ yí shān
  1. 1 Mt Wuyi in Fujian
  2. 2 Wuyishan nature reserve
  3. 3 Wuyishan county level city in Nanping 南平[Nán píng] Fujian
fěi yí suǒ sī
  1. 1 unimaginable
  2. 2 outrageous
  3. 3 freakish
Xià wēi yí guǒ
  1. 1 macadamia nut
  1. 1 non-Han people, esp. to the East of China
  2. 2 barbarians
  3. 3 to wipe out
  4. 4 to exterminate
  5. 5 to tear down
  6. 6 to raze

Idioms (7)

以夷制夷
yǐ yí zhì yí
  1. 1 to use foreigners to subdue foreigners (idiom); let the barbarians fight it out among themselves (traditional policy of successive dynasties)
  2. 2 Use Western science and technology to counter imperialist encroachment. (late Qing modernizing slogan)
兵戈扰攘
bīng gē rǎo rǎng
  1. 1 arms and confusion (idiom); turmoil of war
化险为夷
huà xiǎn wéi yí
  1. 1 to turn peril into safety (idiom); to avert disaster
履险如夷
lǚ xiǎn rú yí
  1. 1 lit. to make one's way through a dangerous pass as if walking on level ground (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to handle a crisis effortlessly
攘外安内
rǎng wài ān nèi
  1. 1 to resist foreign aggression and pacify the interior of the country (idiom)