4 characters Idiom and proverb 21 925

Mastering Chinese involves learning single characters, creating words, and finally, idioms. This free idiom resource introduces 「傳檄而定」, with its explanation below.

This feature highlights the idiom 「傳檄而定」, with its meaning and examples shown below.

Xi: a document to attack the enemy; Ding: to pacify. It is a metaphor that one can subdue the enemy and stabilize the situation with just a piece of paper without sending out troops.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

chuán xí ér dìng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

chyun4 hat6 yi4 ding6

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