Entry
明修棧道，暗渡陳倉
Source
CC-CEDict 200217
Characters
明 修 棧 道 暗 渡 陳 倉
Miscellaneous
Traditional
明修棧道，暗渡陳倉
Simplified
明修栈道，暗渡陈仓
Pinyin
ming2 xiu1 zhan4 dao4 , an4 du4 Chen2 cang1
English
lit. repair the plank road by day while secretly crossing the Wei River 渭河[Wei4 He2] at Chencang (idiom, refers to a stratagem used by Liu Bang 劉邦|刘邦[Liu2 Bang1] in 206 BC against Xiang Yu 項羽|项羽[Xiang4 Yu3] of Chu) fig. to feign one thing while doing another to cheat under cover of a diversion
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