(expr.) hold the feudal overlord and you control the whole country
trad. 挾天子以令天下
Also written 挾天子以令天下【xié tiān zǐ yǐ lìng tiān xià】
Characters in this word
6挟
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old variant of 夾|夹[jia1]
- Pinyin
- jiā
- Traditional
- 挾
- Strokes
- 9
天
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day, sky, heaven
- Pinyin
- tiān
- Strokes
- 4
- Frequency
- 211 of 2500
子
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son, child, seed, egg, small thing, 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the rat, viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4], ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north), subsidiary; subordinate; (prefix) sub-
- Pinyin
- zǐ
- Strokes
- 3
- Frequency
- 2170 of 2500
以
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old variant of 以[yi3]
- Pinyin
- yǐ
- Traditional
- 㕥
- Strokes
- 4
- Frequency
- 367 of 2500
令
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used in 脊令[ji2 ling2], used in 令狐[Ling2 hu2] (Taiwan pr. [ling4])
- Pinyin
- líng
- Strokes
- 5
- Frequency
- 1347 of 2500
下
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down, downwards, below, lower, later, next (week etc), second (of two parts), to decline, to go down, to arrive at (a decision, conclusion etc), measure word to show the frequency of an action
- Pinyin
- xià
- Strokes
- 3
- Frequency
- 184 of 2500