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旗鼓相当

qí gǔ xiāng dāng

4-character word Traditional 旗鼓相當

What 旗鼓相当 means

1. lit. two armies have equivalent banners and drums (idiom); fig. evenly matched
2. roughly comparable (opponents)

The characters in 旗鼓相当

• 旗qíflag; variant of 旗
• 鼓gǔdrum; to drum; to strike
• 相xiāngeach other; one another; mutually
• 当dāng(onomatopoeia) dong; ding dong (bell)

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