東討西伐
dōng​tǎo​xī​fá

to fight on all sides

  • created sense approved 东讨西伐/東討西伐 · dōng​tǎo​xī​fá · to fight on all sides — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    东讨西伐 / 東討西伐

    dōng​tǎo​xī​fá

    to fight on all sides

    to campaign in every direction; to conduct military expeditions across various regions

    东 (literal) → 东/東 · dōng · [haphazard] 讨 (literal) → 讨/討 · tǎo · to send a punitive force 西 (literal) → 西 · xī · here and there 伐 (literal) → 伐 · fá · to attack

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense