{"path":"/entry/8939","title":"假道伐虢 (jiǎ dào fá guó) — Chinese Dictionary | Flashbao","description":"假道伐虢 (jiǎ dào fá guó): to obtain safe passage to conquer the State of Guo. Explore meanings, example sentences and vocabulary decks.","catalog":null,"deck":null,"entry":{"reading":{"id":8939,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["假道伐虢"],"TRADITIONAL":["假道伐虢"]}},"phonetic":"jiǎ dào fá guó","phoneticKey":"jia3 dao4 fa2 guo2","meanings":{"primary":[{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"to obtain safe passage to conquer the State of Guo","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]}],"additional":[{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"to borrow the resources of an ally to attack a common enemy ","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]},{"dim":true,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"(idiom)","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]}],"notes":[],"variantMeanings":[]},"classifiers":[],"pos":["VERB"],"frequency":null,"grammar":[],"spokenPhonetic":null},"otherReadings":[],"examples":[],"carriedReadings":[],"constructions":[],"status":null,"due":null,"reps":null,"lapses":null,"lastReview":null,"senses":[],"origins":[{"literal":"to obtain safe passage to conquer the State of Guo","content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"From a historical event recorded in Zuo Zhuan.","traditional":null}},{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"《左傳·僖公二年》:","traditional":null}},{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"《左傳·僖公五年》","traditional":null}}],"examples":[{"text":{"simplified":"晋荀息请以屈产之乘，与垂棘之璧，假道于虞以伐虢。","traditional":"晉荀息請以屈產之乘，與垂棘之璧，假道於虞以伐虢。"},"phonetic":"Jìn Xún Xī qǐng yǐ Qū chǎn zhī shèng, yǔ Chuí Jí zhī bì, jiǎdào yú Yú yǐ fá Guó.","english":"Xun Xi of Jin requested leave from the marquis to take his team of Qu horses and his Bi of Chui Ji jade, and with them borrow a way from Yu to march through it and attack Guo","ref":"Commentary of Zuo, c. 4ᵗʰ century BCE, translated based on James Legge's version"},{"text":{"simplified":"冬，十二月，丙子朔，晋灭虢，虢公丑奔京师。师还，馆于虞，遂袭虞，灭之。","traditional":"冬，十二月，丙子朔，晉滅虢，虢公醜奔京師。師還，館于虞，遂襲虞，滅之。"},"phonetic":"Dōng, shí'èryuè, bǐngzǐ shuò, Jìn miè Guó, Guó gōng Chǒu bēn jīngshī. Shī huán, guǎn yú Yú, suì xí Yú, miè zhī.","english":"In winter, in the 12th month, on bing-zi, the 1st day of the moon, Jin extinguished Guo, and Chou, the duke, fled to the capital. The army, on its return, took up its quarters in Yu, surprised the city, and extinguished the state.","ref":"Commentary of Zuo, c. 4ᵗʰ century BCE, translated based on James Legge's version"}],"senseScoped":false}],"decks":[{"id":27,"sourceName":"Chengyu","name":"Chengyu"}],"vocabularyScale":null,"vocabularyLevel":null}}