DICTIONARY · CC-CEDICT

沙盤推演

简沙盘推演 · 繁沙盤推演

Mandarin · pinyin shā pán tuī yǎn

to plan a military mission on a sand table (idiom)
to rehearse a planned action or activity
to conduct a dry run

Full entryShow on map

Characters in this entry

沙: shā · sand, gravel, pebbles; granulated
盤: Look up this written character
推: tuī · push, expel; push forward
演: yǎn · perform, put on; exercise
盘: pán · tray, plate, dish; examine

Written characters and their own readings; the entry’s pronunciation is shown above.

Explore the spelling

Mandarin tones

1–2–1–3 · sha1 pan2 tui1 yan3

Compare attested words with these syllables ↗

Dictionary tones. Connected speech can change their realization.

Connected dictionary

4character links

Explore word families ↗Compare pronunciations ↗Open character structure ↗

Counts describe dictionary records, not word frequency or semantic similarity. Source identities stay separate.

Read this spelling in Classical texts

Follow a written form into the eight pinned witnesses: Analects, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Xunzi, Han Feizi, Sunzi and the Mao Shijing. A match is a place to investigate; it does not prove that a modern dictionary sense fits the passage.

沙盤推演 · find source passages ↗ · 沙盘推演 · find source passages ↗

Explore Classical grammar ↗

Compare dictionary sources Wiktionary · 2 senses

Wiktionary English definitions · Chinese section

Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.

phrase

(idiomatic) to plan military strategy using a sand table
(idiomatic) to conduct a practice run; to do a rehearsal; to run a mock

Source page · dump 2026-09-02 · Contributors & history

Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source & license · Data pack