to use foreigners to subdue foreigners (idiom); let the barbarians fight it out among themselves (traditional policy of successive dynasties); Use Western science and technology to counter imperialist encroachment. (late Qing modernizing slogan)
Characters in this word
3以
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old variant of 以[yi3]
- Pinyin
- yǐ
- Traditional
- 㕥
- Strokes
- 4
- Frequency
- 367 of 2500
夷
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non-Han people, esp. to the East of China, barbarians, to wipe out, to exterminate, to tear down, to raze
- Pinyin
- yí
- Strokes
- 6
制
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system, to control, to regulate, variant of 製|制[zhi4]
- Pinyin
- zhì
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 12760 of 2500