唱空城计 — Chinese idiom
唱空城计
chàng kōng chéng jì
Traditional: 唱空城計
Meaning
- (lit.) to sing "The Empty City Stratagem"
- (fig.) to put up a bluff to conceal one's weakness
- (jocular) (of a place etc) to be empty; (of one's stomach) to be rumbling
Character by character
- 唱chàngto sing, to chant, to call; ditty, song
- 空kōnghollow, empty, deserted, bare
- 城chéngcastle, city, town; municipality
- 计jìto calculate, to count; to plan, to reckon; plot,
Idioms sharing a character
- 一唱一和 yī chàng yī hè
- 一唱三叹 yī chàng sān tàn
- 唱对台戏 chàng duì tái xì
- 高唱入云 gāo chàng rù yún
- 一扫而空 yī sǎo ér kōng
- 一纸空文 yī zhǐ kōng wén
- 人去楼空 rén qù lóu kōng
- 人财两空 rén cái liǎng kōng
- 两手空空 liǎng shǒu kōng kōng
- 劈空扳害 pī kōng bān hài
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