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师夷长技以制夷 (師夷長技以制夷)

shī yí cháng jì yǐ zhì yí

Definition

  1. "learn from the foreigners in order to gain command of them", idea advocated by Wei Yuan 魏源

Character Decomposition

师
=
？
+
帀
夷
=
大
+
弓
长
=
？
+
一
技
=
扌
+
支
以
=
以
制
=
？
+
刂

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