We’re sharing free Chinese learning content with you. Idioms and proverbs, full of meaning, are explored in this series. Today, we present 「分而治之」.
This time, our spotlight is on the idiom 「分而治之」. Its meaning and how it’s applied are described below.
① Govern separately. ② Use means to cause division among countries, ethnic groups or religions, and then control and rule them.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
fèn ér zhì zhī
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
fan1 yi4 ji6 ji1
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