"Stratagem" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 jì jiào to bother about / to haggle / to bicker / to argue / plan / stratagem
 jī guān mechanism / gear / machine-operated / office / agency / organ / organization / establishment / institution / body / stratagem / scheme / intrigue / plot / trick / CL:個|个[ge4]
 jì móu stratagem / scheme
 móu lu:è stratagem / strategy / resourcefulness
 jì cè stratagem
 lù shù stratagem / method / approach / movement (martial arts) / social connections / (sb's) background story
 jī móu stratagem / scheme / shrewdness
 xū (literary) ability and wisdom / scheme / stratagem
 cè móu stratagem (political or military) / trick
 móu jì stratagem / scheme
 shèng suàn odds of success / stratagem that ensures success / to be sure of success
 quán yí zhī jì plan of convenience (idiom) / stop-gap measure / makeshift stratagem / interim step
 zhòng jì to fall into a trap / taken in by a stratagem / cheated / ripped off
 fǎn jiàn jì stratagem of sowing dissension / CL:條|条[tiao2]
 àn dù Chén cāng lit. secretly crossing the Wei River 渭河[Wei4 He2] at Chencang (idiom, refers to a stratagem used by Liu Bang 劉邦|刘邦[Liu2 Bang1] in 206 BC against Xiang Yu 項羽|项羽[Xiang4 Yu3] of Chu) / fig. to feign one thing while doing another / to cheat under cover of a diversion
 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
 mí hún zhèn stratagem to trap sb / to bewitch and trap
 quán yí zhī cè stratagem of convenience (idiom) / stop-gap measure / makeshift plan / interim step
 huǎn bīng zhī jì delaying tactics / stalling / measures to stave off an attack / stratagem to win a respite
 gù jì chóng yǎn to repeat an old stratagem / up to one's old tricks
 mù mǎ jì wooden horse stratagem (cf Trojan horse)
 Sī mǎ Zhāo zhī xīn lù rén suǒ zhī Sima Zhao's stratagem is obvious to everyone / fig. an open secret
 míng xiū zhàn dào , àn dù Chén cāng lit. repair the plank road by day while secretly crossing the Wei River 渭河[Wei4 He2] at Chencang (idiom, refers to a stratagem used by Liu Bang 劉邦|刘邦[Liu2 Bang1] in 206 BC against Xiang Yu 項羽|项羽[Xiang4 Yu3] of Chu) / fig. to feign one thing while doing another / to cheat under cover of a diversion
 yòng jì to employ a stratagem
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