江洋大盗 — Chinese idiom
江洋大盗
jiāng yáng dà dào
Traditional: 江洋大盜
Meaning
- infamous pirate; (by extension) notorious bandit or robber
Character by character
- 江jiānglarge river; the Yangtze; surname
- 洋yángsea, ocean; western, foreign
- 大dàbig, great, vast, high, deep
- 盗dàoto rob, to steal; thief, bandit
Idioms sharing a character
- 大江南北 Dà jiāng nán běi
- 指点江山 zhǐ diǎn jiāng shān
- 文江学海 wén jiāng xué hǎi
- 江河日下 jiāng hé rì xià
- 江郎才尽 Jiāng láng cái jìn
- 翻江倒海 fān jiāng dǎo hǎi
- 万里江山 wàn lǐ jiāng shān
- 过江之鲫 guò jiāng zhī jì
- 喜气洋洋 xǐ qì yáng yáng
- 土洋结合 tǔ yáng jié hé
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3). Retrieved 2026-10-22.