to plan a military mission on a sand table (idiom); to rehearse a planned action or activity; to conduct a dry run
trad. 沙盤推演
Also written 沙盤推演【shā pán tuī yǎn】
Characters in this word
4沙
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surname Sha
- Pinyin
- Shā
- Strokes
- 7
- Frequency
- 5710 of 2500
盘
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tray; plate; dish, (finance) (bound form) market prices, (computing) (bound form) disk, to coil (a rope, pigtail etc), to check; to examine; to investigate, to transfer; to sell (property), to shift; to move (sth big and heavy), classifier for things resembling a plate or dish, classifier for coils, classifier for games or matches (chess, table tennis etc)
- Pinyin
- pán
- Traditional
- 盤
- Strokes
- 11
- Frequency
- 15471 of 2500
推
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to push, to cut, to refuse, to reject, to decline, to shirk (responsibility), to put off, to delay, to push forward, to nominate, to elect, massage
- Pinyin
- tuī
- Strokes
- 11
- Frequency
- 2207 of 2500
演
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to perform (a play etc); to stage (a show), (bound form) to develop; to play out; to carry out (a task)
- Pinyin
- yǎn
- Strokes
- 14
- Frequency
- 2765 of 2500