缓兵之计

Traditional form:

緩兵之計

Pinyin (reading):

huǎnbīngzhījì

Definitions:

• delaying tactics; stalling; measures to stave off an attack; stratagem to win a respite

Characters:

• 缓 - slow, gradual; to postpone, to delay
• 兵 - soldier; troops, an army; warlike
• 之 - marks preceding phrase as modifier of following phrase; it, him her, them; to go to
• 计 - to calculate, to count; to plan, to reckon; plot, scheme

Traditional characters:

• 緩 - slow, gradual; to postpone, to delay
• 兵 - soldier; troops, an army; warlike
• 之 - marks preceding phrase as modifier of following phrase; it, him her, them; to go to
• 計 - to calculate, to count; to plan, to reckon; plot, scheme