寸土必爭

Chinese

		very small piece of land	certainly; must; will certainly; must; will; necessarily	struggle; fight
trad. (寸土必爭)		寸土	必	爭
simp. (寸土必争)		寸土	必	争

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): cùntǔbìzhēng

  (Zhuyin): ㄘㄨㄣˋ ㄊㄨˇ ㄅㄧˋ ㄓㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cyun³ tou² bit¹ zang¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: cùntǔbìzhēng
    • Zhuyin: ㄘㄨㄣˋ ㄊㄨˇ ㄅㄧˋ ㄓㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cùntǔbìjheng
    • Wade–Giles: tsʻun⁴-tʻu³-pi⁴-chêng¹
    • Yale: tswùn-tǔ-bì-jēng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsuenntuubihjeng
    • Palladius: цуньтубичжэн (cunʹtubičžɛn)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰu̯ən⁵¹ tʰu²¹⁴⁻²¹ pi⁵¹ ʈ͡ʂɤŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: cyun³ tou² bit¹ zang¹
    • Yale: chyun tóu bīt jāng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsyn³ tou² bit⁷ dzang¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: qun³ tou² bid¹ zeng¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰyːn³³ tʰou̯³⁵ piːt̚⁵ t͡sɐŋ⁵⁵/

Idiom

寸土必爭

1. to fight for every inch of land

   • 我們是針鋒相對，寸土必爭，絕不讓國民黨輕輕易易地佔我們的地方，殺我們的人。 [MSC, trad.]
     我们是针锋相对，寸土必争，绝不让国民党轻轻易易地占我们的地方，杀我们的人。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1945, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《抗日戰爭勝利後的時局和我們的方針》 (The Situation and Our Policy After the Victory in the War of Resistance Against Japan), 《毛澤東選集》 (Selected Works of Mao Zedong). English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition

     Wǒmen shì zhēnfēngxiāngduì, cùntǔbìzhēng, juébù ràng Guómíndǎng qīngqīngyìyì de zhàn wǒmen de dìfang, shā wǒmen de rén. [Pinyin]

     Our [policy] is to give tit for tat and fight for every inch of land; we will never let the Kuomintang easily seize our land and kill our people.