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穷寇莫追
qióng​kòu​mò​zhuī

don't push a cornered enemy too hard

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
  1. 穷寇 窮寇 qióng​kòu
    cornered enemy
    a hard-pressed foe; an enemy who is backed into a corner and has no way out
  2. 莫 mò
    do not
    (literary) do not; must not; used as a command to forbid an action
  3. 追 zhuī verb
    to chase
    to chase; to pursue; to follow closely in order to catch up