ruling a large nation is like cooking a small delicacy (idiom); effective government requires minimal intervention
trad. 治大國若烹小鮮
Also written 治大國若烹小鮮【zhì dà guó ruò pēng xiǎo xiān】
Characters in this word
7治
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to rule, to govern, to manage, to control, to harness (a river), to treat (a disease), to wipe out (a pest), to punish, to research
- Pinyin
- zhì
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 6571 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
国
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surname Guo
- Pinyin
- Guó
- Traditional
- 國
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 5111 of 2500
若
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used in 般若[bo1 re3], used in 蘭若|兰若[lan2 re3]
- Pinyin
- rě
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 913 of 2500
烹
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to boil; to brew (tea), to cook by briefly stir-frying and then mixing in sauce, (old) to boil to death (judicial punishment in ancient times)
- Pinyin
- pēng
- Strokes
- 11
小
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small, tiny, few, young
- Pinyin
- xiǎo
- Strokes
- 3
- Frequency
- 245 of 2500
鲜
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variant of 鮮|鲜[xian3]
- Pinyin
- xiǎn
- Traditional
- 尟
- Strokes
- 14
- Frequency
- 40824 of 2500