to cure ills with poison (TCM); to fight evil with evil; set a thief to catch a thief; to fight fire with fire
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
毒
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poison, to poison, poisonous, malicious, cruel, fierce, narcotics
- Pinyin
- dú
- Strokes
- 9
- Frequency
- 6319 of 2500
攻
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to attack, to accuse, to study, (LGBT) top
- Pinyin
- gōng
- Strokes
- 7
- Frequency
- 19734 of 2500