Chinese symbol for “stalling”
缓兵之计
huǎn bīng zhī jì
Traditional: 緩兵之計
delaying tactics; stalling; measures to stave off an attack; stratagem to win a respite
The closest CC-CEDICT match for stalling is 缓兵之计 (huǎn bīng zhī jì), defined as: delaying tactics; stalling; measures to stave off an attack; stratagem to win a respite.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 缓兵之计.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 缓慢 (緩慢) | huǎn màn | slow; unhurried; sluggish |
| 缓解 (緩解) | huǎn jiě | to bring relief; to alleviate (a crisis) |
| 缓和 (緩和) | huǎn hé | to ease (tension); to alleviate |
| 减缓 (減緩) | jiǎn huǎn | to slow down; to retard |
| 缓存 (緩存) | huǎn cún | (computing) cache; buffer memory |
| 缓刑 (緩刑) | huǎn xíng | suspended sentence; probation |
| 士兵 | shì bīng | soldier; 个 (gè) |
| 步兵 | bù bīng | infantry; foot |
| 之后 (之後) | zhī hòu | after; behind; (at the beginning of a sentence) afterwards; since then |
| 计划 (計劃) | jì huà | plan; project |
See also: Japanese symbol for “stalling”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.