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恩威並用
ēn​wēi​bìng​yòng

to use both carrot and stick

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
恩威并用 恩威並用 ēn​wēi​bìng​yòng
to use both carrot and stick
to apply both kindness and severity at the same time, or to use rewards and punishments together to manage people

Frequency

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0.023 per million

Cross-References

Variant of

  • 恩威并行 ēn​wēi​bìng​xíng

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Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)