"Dagger" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 bǐ shǒu dagger
 duǎn jiàn dagger
 jiān dāo dagger
 bǐ dagger / ladle / ancient type of spoon
 xín guard (on a sword handle) / pommel (on a sword handle) / dagger / Taiwan pr. [tan2]
 xiào lǐ cáng dāo lit. a dagger hidden in smiles (idiom) / friendly manners belying hypocritical intentions / when the fox preaches, look to the geese
 Xiǎo dāo huì Dagger Society, anti-Qing secret society who mounted an unsuccessful rebellion in 1855
 tú qióng bǐ xiàn lit. the assassin's dagger, concealed in a map scroll, is suddenly revealed when the map is unrolled (referring to the attempted assassination of Ying Zheng 嬴政[Ying2 Zheng4] by Jing Ke 荊軻|荆轲[Jing1 Ke1] in 227 BC) (idiom) / fig. malicious intent suddenly becomes apparent
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