lit. two armies have equivalent banners and drums (idiom); fig. evenly matched; roughly comparable (opponents)
trad. 旗鼓相當
Also written 旗鼓相當【qí gǔ xiāng dāng】
Characters in this word
4旗
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flag, variant of 旗[qi2]
- Pinyin
- qí
- Traditional
- 旂
- Strokes
- 14
- Frequency
- 20885 of 2500
鼓
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old variant of 鼓[gu3]
- Pinyin
- gǔ
- Traditional
- 皷
- Strokes
- 13
- Frequency
- 12549 of 2500
相
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surname Xiang
- Pinyin
- Xiāng
- Strokes
- 9
- Frequency
- 5022 of 2500
当
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(onom.) dong, ding dong (bell)
- Pinyin
- dāng
- Traditional
- 噹
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 145 of 2500