兵来将敌，水来土堰
Traditional form:
兵來將敵，水來土堰
Pinyin (reading):
bīngláijiàngdí,shuǐláitǔyàn
Definitions:
- counter soldiers with arms, water with an earth weir (idiom); different situations call for different action
- to adopt measures appropriate to the actual situation
Characters:
- 兵 - soldier; troops, an army; warlike
- 来 - to arrive, to come, to return; in the future, later on
- 将 - the future, what will be; ready, prepared; a general
- 敌 - enemy, foe, rival; to match; to resist
- 水 - water, liquid, lotion, juice
- 来 - to arrive, to come, to return; in the future, later on
- 土 - soil, earth; items made of earth
- 堰 - dam, dike, embankment
Traditional characters:
- 兵 - soldier; troops, an army; warlike
- 來 - to arrive, to come, to return; in the future, later on
- 將 - the future, what will be; ready, prepared; a general
- 敵 - enemy, foe, rival; to match; to resist
- 水 - water, liquid, lotion, juice
- 來 - to arrive, to come, to return; in the future, later on
- 土 - soil, earth; items made of earth
- 堰 - dam, dike, embankment