化整为零
Traditional form:
化整為零
Pinyin (reading):
huàzhěngwéilíng
Definitions:
- to break up the whole into pieces (idiom); dealing with things one by one
- divide and conquer
Characters:
- 化 - to change, to convert, to reform; -ize
- 整 - neat, orderly, whole; to repair, to mend
- 为 - to do, to act; to handle, to govern; to be
- 零 - zero; fragment, fraction
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