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大张挞伐

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4-character word Traditional 大張撻伐

What 大张挞伐 means

1. idiomto launch an all-out attack
2. to roundly condemn; to castigate

The characters in 大张挞伐

• 大dàbig; large; great; older (than another person); eldest (as in 大姐
• 张zhāngto open up; to spread; sheet of paper
• 挞tà(bound form) to whip; to flog; (loanword) (pastry) tart (colloquial pr. tǎ)
• 伐fáto cut down; to fell; to dispatch an expedition against