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Our goal is to provide you with free Chinese learning tools. This series highlights idioms and proverbs, full of meaning and adaptable to many contexts. The featured idiom is 「兵不厭詐」, with details below.

Here is the Chinese idiom 「兵不厭詐」, along with its meaning and how it is used.

Hate: disgust; deception: cheat. When fighting, use illusions to confuse the enemy as much as possible in order to achieve victory.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

bīng bù yàn zhà

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

bing1 bat1 yim3 ja3

Chinese idioms are vast in number, each carrying unique meanings and usages. With such variety, there’s a lot to learn and appreciate. Hopefully, these resources will aid you on your journey to mastering Chinese.