吊民伐罪 — Chinese idiom
吊民伐罪
diào mín fá zuì
Traditional: 弔民伐罪
Meaning
- to console the people by punishing the tyrants
Character by character
- 吊diàoto condole, to mourn, to pity; to hang
- 民míncitizens, subjects; a nation's people
- 伐fácut down, subjugate, attack
- 罪zuìsin, vice; fault, guilt; crime
Idioms sharing a character
- 形影相吊 xíng yǐng xiāng diào
- 提心吊胆 tí xīn diào dǎn
- 全民皆兵 quán mín jiē bīng
- 削职为民 xuē zhí wéi mín
- 劳民伤财 láo mín shāng cái
- 升斗小民 shēng dǒu xiǎo mín
- 国弱民穷 guó ruò mín qióng
- 国泰民安 guó tài mín ān
- 国计民生 guó jì mín shēng
- 官逼民反 guān bī mín fǎn
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