暗算
àn suàn
Pinyin
Definition
暗算
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- to plot against
Character Decomposition
Idioms (20)
名重识暗
- 1 of great reputation but shallow in knowledge (idiom)
巴前算后
- 1 thinking and pondering (idiom); to turn sth over in one's mind
- 2 to consider repeatedly
打小算盘
- 1 lit. to count on a narrow abacus (idiom); petty and scheming selfishly
- 2 concerned with petty interests
- 3 selfish and uncaring of the interests of others
- 4 bean counter
明人不做暗事
- 1 The honest person does nothing underhand (idiom).
- 2 fig. Do what you want to do openly and without dissimulation.
明修栈道,暗渡陈仓
- 1 lit. repair the plank road by day while secretly crossing the Wei River 渭河[Wèi Hé] at Chencang (idiom, refers to a stratagem used by Liu Bang 劉邦|刘邦[Liú Bāng] in 206 BC against Xiang Yu 項羽|项羽[Xiàng Yǔ] of Chu)
- 2 fig. to feign one thing while doing another
- 3 to cheat under cover of a diversion