Chinese begins with basics like characters, builds up to words, and reaches idioms. This free resource introduces advanced idioms like 「以守為攻」, with details below.
Here’s the idiom 「以守為攻」, with its definition and practical application described below.
Use defense as a means to defeat the enemy.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yǐ shǒu wéi gōng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yi5 sau2 wai4 gung1
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