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Chinese
Etymology
From an episode in the fourteenth-century novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, in which the strategist Zhuge Liang gives the general Zhao Yun—who is escorting the protagonist Liu Bei to the neighboring realm of Wu, ruled by Sun Quan―three brocade pouches containing cunning instructions on how to thwart Sun Quan's schemes to keep Liu Bei hostage.
Pronunciation
Idiom
錦囊妙計
- bag of tricks; cunning masterplan
Descendants
- → Korean: 비단 주머니 (bidan jumeoni) (calque)