铸剑为犁 — Chinese idiom

Meaning

• to beat swords into plowshares; to turn from war to peace

Character by character

• 铸zhùto melt, to cast; to mint, to coin
• 剑jiànsword, dagger, saber
• 为wéito do, to act; to handle, to govern; to be
• 犁líto plow

Idioms sharing a character

• 铸成大错 zhù chéng dà cuò
• 刀光剑影 dāo guāng jiàn yǐng
• 刀枪剑戟 dāo qiāng jiàn jǐ
• 刻舟求剑 kè zhōu qiú jiàn
• 剑拔弩张 jiàn bá nǔ zhāng
• 剑眉星目 jiàn méi xīng mù
• 口蜜腹剑 kǒu mì fù jiàn
• 唇枪舌剑 chún qiāng shé jiàn
• 琴剑飘零 qín jiàn piāo líng
• 一之为甚 yī zhī wéi shèn

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3). Retrieved 2026-10-22.