开疆拓土 — Chinese idiom
开疆拓土
kāi jiāng tuò tǔ
Traditional: 開疆拓土
Meaning
- to expand one's territory; to conquer new lands; (fig.) to expand one's business into new markets
Character by character
- 开kāito open; to start, to initiate, to begin
- 疆jiāngboundary, border, frontier
- 拓tuòto develop, to expand, to open up
- 土tǔsoil, earth; items made of earth
Idioms sharing a character
- 信口开河 xìn kǒu kāi hé
- 别开生面 bié kāi shēng miàn
- 喜笑颜开 xǐ xiào yán kāi
- 大开大合 dà kāi dà hé
- 大开眼界 dà kāi yǎn jiè
- 左右开弓 zuǒ yòu kāi gōng
- 广开言路 guǎng kāi yán lù
- 情窦初开 qíng dòu chū kāi
- 放开手脚 fàng kāi shǒu jiǎo
- 旗开得胜 qí kāi dé shèng
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