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有的放矢

yǒu dì fàng shǐ

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 4-character word

有的放矢 (yǒu dì fàng shǐ) means "lit. to have a target in mind when shooting one's arrows (idiom); fig. to have a clear objective". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 有的放矢 means

1. lit. to have a target in mind when shooting one's arrows (idiom)
2. fig. to have a clear objective

The characters in 有的放矢

• 有yǒuto have; there is; (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 有意
• 的deof; ~'s (possessive particle); (used after an attribute when it modifies a noun)…
• 放fàngto put; to place; to release
• 矢shǐarrow; dart; straight

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