Read Edit View history 息事宁人 xīshìníngrén to patch up a quarrel Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 息事宁人 息事寧人 xīshìníngrén to patch up a quarrel to mediate or reconcile disputants in order to settle a conflict and keep the peace to make concessions to give in or compromise solely to avoid trouble or further conflict to rule without disturbance originally referred to a policy of governance that avoided causing trouble or disturbing the common people Frequency Movie subtitles 0.270 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.583 per million Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
息事宁人 息事寧人 xīshìníngrén to patch up a quarrel to mediate or reconcile disputants in order to settle a conflict and keep the peace to make concessions to give in or compromise solely to avoid trouble or further conflict to rule without disturbance originally referred to a policy of governance that avoided causing trouble or disturbing the common people Frequency Movie subtitles 0.270 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.583 per million Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)