运筹帷幄之中，决胜千里之外
Traditional form:
運籌帷幄之中，決勝千里之外
Pinyin (reading):
yùnchóuwéiwòzhīzhōng,juéshèngqiānlǐzhīwài
Definitions:
- a general planning in the seclusion of his tent is able to determine the outcome of the distant battle (idiom)
Characters:
- 运 - to run; ship, transport; fortune, luck
- 筹 - chip, tally, token; to plan; to raise money
- 帷 - curtain, screen, tent
- 幄 - tent; mosquito net
- 之 - marks preceding phrase as modifier of following phrase; it, him her, them; to go to
- 中 - central; center, middle; amidst; to hit (target), to attain; China; Chinese
- 决 - to decide, to determine, to judge
- 胜 - victory; to excel, to truimph
- 千 - thousand; many, numerous; very
- 里 - unit of distance equal to 0.5km; village; lane
- 之 - marks preceding phrase as modifier of following phrase; it, him her, them; to go to
- 外 - out, outside, external; foreign; in addition
Traditional characters:
- 運 - to run; ship, transport; fortune, luck
- 籌 - chip, tally, token; to plan; to raise money
- 帷 - curtain, screen, tent
- 幄 - tent; mosquito net
- 之 - marks preceding phrase as modifier of following phrase; it, him her, them; to go to
- 中 - central; center, middle; amidst; to hit (target), to attain; China; Chinese
- 決 - to decide, to determine, to judge
- 勝 - victory; to excel, to truimph
- 千 - thousand; many, numerous; very
- 里 - unit of distance equal to 0.5km; village; lane
- 之 - marks preceding phrase as modifier of following phrase; it, him her, them; to go to
- 外 - out, outside, external; foreign; in addition