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wǎng​kāi​yī​miàn

leniency

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网开一面 (網開一面) wǎng​kāi​yī​miàn
leniency idiom
to show mercy or give an opponent a way out; to treat a wrongdoer with indulgence rather than full severity

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.660 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.640 per million

Sources

Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)