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空城计

kōng chéng jì

3-character word Traditional 空城計

What 空城计 means

1. the empty city stratagem (in which Zhuge Liang presents himself as unperturbed while making it evident that his city is undefended, hoping his adversary will suspect an ambush); double bluff

The characters in 空城计

• 空kōngempty; air; sky
• 城chéngcity walls; city; town
• 计jìto calculate; to compute; to count

Words containing 空城计

• 唱空城计chàng kōng chéng jì(lit.) to sing "The Empty City Stratagem" (idiom); (fig.) to put up a bluff to conceal…