Read Edit View history 鹬蚌相争 Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 鹬蚌相争，渔翁得利 (鷸蚌相爭，漁翁得利) yùbàngxiāngzhēng, yúwēngdélì third-party benefit A situation where two parties are locked in a dispute, allowing a third party to benefit from their conflict; literally, when the snipe and the clam grapple, the fisherman catches them both. Frequency Written text 0.078 per million Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
鹬蚌相争，渔翁得利 (鷸蚌相爭，漁翁得利) yùbàngxiāngzhēng, yúwēngdélì third-party benefit A situation where two parties are locked in a dispute, allowing a third party to benefit from their conflict; literally, when the snipe and the clam grapple, the fisherman catches them both. Frequency Written text 0.078 per million Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)