- 中文拼音
- ming2 xiu1 zhan4 dao4 , an4 du4 Chen2 cang1
- 中文繁体
- 明修棧道，暗渡陳倉
- 英文翻译
- lit. repair the plank road by day while secretly crossing the Wei river 渭河 at Chencang (idiom, refers to a stratagem used by Liu Bang 劉邦|刘邦 in 206 BC against Xiangyu 項羽|项羽 of Chu); fig. feign one thing while doing another/to cheat under cover of a diversion