网开一面
Traditional form:
網開一面
Pinyin (reading):
wǎngkāiyīmiàn
Definitions:
- open the net on one side (idiom); let the caged bird fly
- to give one's opponent a way out
- lenient treatment
Characters:
- 网 - net; network
- 开 - to open; to start, to initiate, to begin
- 一 - one; a, an; alone
- 面 - face; surface, side; plane, dimension
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