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Learning Chinese starts simple with characters, advances to words, and peaks with idioms. Explore the free idiom 「以攻為守」 here, with meaning and examples.

Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「以攻為守」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.

Use offense as a means of defense.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yǐ gōng wéi shǒu

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yi5 gung1 wai4 sau2

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