偃武修文 yǎnwǔxiūwén to give up the sword for the pen Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 偃武修文 yǎnwǔxiūwén to give up the sword for the pen to cease military preparations and focus instead on culture and education, traditionally attributed to the 书经 shūjīng Frequency Written text 0.015 per million Cross-References Same as 修文偃武 xiūwényǎnwǔSynonym 行文 xíngwén Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
偃武修文 yǎnwǔxiūwén to give up the sword for the pen to cease military preparations and focus instead on culture and education, traditionally attributed to the 书经 shūjīng Frequency Written text 0.015 per million Cross-References Same as 修文偃武 xiūwényǎnwǔSynonym 行文 xíngwén Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)