短兵相接
duǎn​bīng​xiāng​jiē

to fight at close quarters

  • created sense approved 短兵相接 · duǎn​bīng​xiāng​jiē · to fight at close quarters — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    短兵相接

    duǎn​bīng​xiāng​jiē

    to fight at close quarters

    (idiom) to engage in hand-to-hand combat using short weapons like knives or swords; used to describe a fierce face-to-face struggle

    短兵 (literal) → 短兵 · duǎn​bīng · short-range weapons 相接 (literal) → 相接 · xiāng​jiē · to join

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

    created sense