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唱空城計
简 唱空城计 · 繁 唱空城計Mandarin · pinyin chàng kōng chéng jì
Meanings
- (lit.) to sing "The Empty City Stratagem" (idiom)
- (fig.) to put up a bluff to conceal one's weakness
- (jocular) (of a place etc) to be empty; (of one's stomach) to be rumbling
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4–1–2–4 · chang4 kong1 cheng2 ji4
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verb
- (idiomatic) to run an Empty Fort Strategy (strategy to deceive the enemy into thinking that an empty location is full of traps and ambushes)
- (idiomatic, of staff) to be almost completely absent
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