"Adversary" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 对手 | duì shǒu | opponent / rival / competitor / (well-matched) adversary / match |   |
| 对头 | duì tou | (longstanding) opponent / enemy / inimical / adversary / opponent | |
| 对抗者 | duì kàng zhě | adversary / opponent | |
| 敌手 | dí shǒu | opponent / substantial adversary / worthy match / antagonist / in the enemy's hands | |
| 对垒 | duì lěi | to face off against one's adversary (military, sports etc) | |
| 同仇敌忾 | tóng chóu dí kài | anger against a common enemy (idiom) / joined in opposition to the same adversary | |
| 空城计 | kōng chéng jì | the empty city stratagem (in which Zhuge Liang presents himself as unperturbed while making it evident that his city is undefended, hoping his adversary will suspect an ambush) / double bluff | |
| 胯下之辱 | kuà xià zhī rǔ | lit. the humiliation of having to crawl between the legs of one's adversary (as Han Xin 韓信|韩信[Han2 Xin4] supposedly did rather than engage in a sword fight) (idiom) / fig. (endure) utter humiliation | |
| 对抗辩论式诉讼制度 | adversary system | | |
| 点子扎手 | diǎn zi zhā shǒu | (coll.) one's adversary is very tough | |
