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网开一面

網開一面
wǎng kāi miàn

Meanings

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wǎng kāi miàn
  1. 1.open the net on one side (idiom); let the caged bird fly
  2. 2.to give one's opponent a way out
  3. 3.lenient treatment

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Wiktionary

  1. 1.to be lenient and magnanimous with wrongdoers

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Etymology

Originally as 網開三面 (“to leave open three sides of the net”)

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Stroke order

Components

Components from cjk-decomp · MIT

Characters

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