(idiom) to persuade by appealing to principle; to reason with sb on moral grounds
trad. 曉以大義
Also written 曉以大義【xiǎo yǐ dà yì】
Characters in this word
4晓
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dawn, daybreak, to know, to let sb know, to make explicit
- Pinyin
- xiǎo
- Traditional
- 曉
- Strokes
- 10
- Frequency
- 31823 of 2500
以
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old variant of 以[yi3]
- Pinyin
- yǐ
- Traditional
- 㕥
- Strokes
- 4
- Frequency
- 367 of 2500
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
义
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surname Yi, (Tw) Italy (abbr. for 義大利|义大利[Yi4 da4 li4])
- Pinyin
- Yì
- Traditional
- 義
- Strokes
- 3
- Frequency
- 35532 of 2500