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网开一面

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4-character word Traditional 網開一面

What 网开一面 means

1. open the net on one side (idiom); let the caged bird fly
2. to give one's opponent a way out
3. lenient treatment

The characters in 网开一面

• 网wǎngnet; web; network; to net; to catch with a net
• 开kāito open (transitive or intransitive); (of ships, vehicles, troops etc) to start…
• 一yīone; single; a (article)
• 面miànface; side; surface