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十面埋伏

Mandarin · pinyin Shí miàn Mái fú

Ambush from Ten Sides (pipa solo piece)
House of Flying Daggers (2004 movie by Zhang Yimou 張藝謀 Zhāng Yì móu)

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十: shí · ten, tenth; complete; perfect
面: miàn · face; surface; plane; side, dimension; Kangxi radical 176
埋: mái · bury, secrete, conceal
伏: fú · crouch, crawl, lie hidden, conceal

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2–4–2–2 · Shi2 mian4 Mai2 fu2

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phrase

(idiomatic) to ambush on all sides
(idiomatic) to be surrounded

name

historical battle of Chinese history (202 BCE)
Ambush from Ten Sides (classical piece written for the pipa)

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