木馬計

Chinese

		wooden horse; rocking horse; hobby horse	to calculate; to compute; to count to calculate; to compute; to count; reckon; ruse; to plan
trad. (木馬計)		木馬	計
simp. (木马计)		木马	计

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): mùmǎjì

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄨˋ ㄇㄚˇ ㄐㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): muk⁶ maa⁵ gai³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: mùmǎjì
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄨˋ ㄇㄚˇ ㄐㄧˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: mùmǎjì
    • Wade–Giles: mu⁴-ma³-chi⁴
    • Yale: mù-mǎ-jì
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: muhmaajih
    • Palladius: мумацзи (mumaczi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mu⁵¹ mä²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕi⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: muk⁶ maa⁵ gai³
    • Yale: muhk máh gai
    • Cantonese Pinyin: muk⁹ maa⁵ gai³
    • Guangdong Romanization: mug⁶ ma⁵ gei³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mʊk̚² maː¹³ kɐi̯³³/

Noun

木馬計

1. the Trojan horse stratagem

   • 《水滸傳》上宋江三打祝家莊，兩次都因情況不明，方法不對，打了敗仗。後來改變方法，從調查情形入手……用了和外國故事中所說木馬計相像的方法，第三次就打了勝仗。 [MSC, trad.]
     《水浒传》上宋江三打祝家庄，两次都因情况不明，方法不对，打了败仗。后来改变方法，从调查情形入手……用了和外国故事中所说木马计相像的方法，第三次就打了胜仗。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1937, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《矛盾論》 (On Contradiction), 《毛澤東選集》. English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition

     “Shuǐhǔzhuàn” shàng Sòng Jiāng sān dǎ Zhùjiāzhuāng, liǎng cì dōu yīn qíngkuàng bùmíng, fāngfǎ bùduì, dǎ le bàizhàng. Hòulái gǎibiàn fāngfǎ, cóng diàochá qíngxíng rùshǒu...... Yòng le hé wàiguó gùshi zhōng suǒ shuō mùmǎjì xiāngxiàng de fāngfǎ, dì sān cì jiù dǎ le shèngzhàng. [Pinyin]

     In the novel Shui Hu Chuan, Sung Chiang thrice attacked Chu Village. Twice he was defeated because he was ignorant of the local conditions and used the wrong method. Later he changed his method; first he investigated the situation, … using a stratagem similar to that of the Trojan Horse in the foreign story. And on the third occasion he won.