仗义执言 — Chinese idiom
仗义执言
zhàng yì zhí yán
Traditional: 仗義執言
Meaning
- to speak out for justice ; to take a stand on a matter of principle
Character by character
- 仗zhàng1to rely upon; protector; to fight; war, weaponry
- 义yìright conduct, propriety; justice
- 执zhíto execute; to grasp, to hold; to keep; to sieze,
- 言yánwords, speech; to speak, to say
Idioms sharing a character
- 仗势欺人 zhàng shì qī rén
- 仗义疏财 zhàng yì shū cái
- 狗仗人势 gǒu zhàng rén shì
- 疏财仗义 shū cái zhàng yì
- 仁人义士 rén rén yì shì
- 仁义道德 rén yì dào dé
- 仁至义尽 rén zhì yì jìn
- 侠肝义胆 xiá gān yì dǎn
- 割袍断义 gē páo duàn yì
- 大义凛然 dà yì lǐn rán
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