Offering free Chinese study resources is our priority. This series showcases idioms and proverbs, widely applicable phrases. Today’s idiom is 「各個擊破」, explained here.
Learn about the idiom 「各個擊破」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.
Each: one by one; attack: attack. Military term. It refers to using superior forces to eliminate the separated enemy forces piece by piece. Sometimes it is also used as a metaphor to mean solving problems one by one.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
gè gè jī pò
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
gok3 go3 gik1 po3
There are a countless number of Chinese idioms, each with unique meanings and applications. We’ve provided these resources to help guide you as you dive deeper into learning Chinese.
