西艺
西艺
Xī yì
Western skills; in Qing times, refers to Western technology, esp. military and naval know-how
Traditional: 西藝
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- Western skills
- in Qing times, refers to Western technology, esp. military and naval know-how
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Related Words
以夷制夷(yǐ yí zhì yí)· to use foreigners to subdue foreigners (idiom); let the barbarians fight it out among themselves (traditional policy of successive dynasties)
→下西洋(xià xī yáng)· to sail West (from China)
→两汉(liǎng Hàn)· Han dynasty (206 BC-220 AD)
→周勃(Zhōu Bó)· Zhou Bo (?-169 BC), military man and politician at the Qin-Han transition, a founding minister of Western Han
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