lit. to go to war (idiom); fig. to make a big fuss over sth
trad. 大動干戈
Also written 大動干戈【dà dòng gān gē】
Characters in this word
4大
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big; large; great, older (than another person), eldest (as in 大姐[da4 jie3]), greatly; freely; fully, (dialect) father, (dialect) uncle (father's brother)
- Pinyin
- dà
- Strokes
- 3
- Frequency
- 199 of 2500
动
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(of sth) to move, to set in movement, to displace, to touch, to make use of, to stir (emotions), to alter, abbr. for 動詞|动词[dong4 ci2], verb
- Pinyin
- dòng
- Traditional
- 動
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 1317 of 2500
干
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old variant of 乾|干[gan1]
- Pinyin
- gān
- Traditional
- 乹
- Strokes
- 3
- Frequency
- 340 of 2500
戈
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surname Ge
- Pinyin
- Gē
- Strokes
- 4
- Frequency
- 8610 of 2500