"栈道" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation Actions
栈道 棧道 zhàn dào plank walkway constructed on the face of a cliff / (archaic) elevated passageway connecting the upper levels of adjacent towers
Chinese Pinyin Translation Actions
桩构栈道 樁構棧道 zhuāng gòu zhàn dào pile trestle
秦岭蜀栈道 秦嶺蜀棧道 qín lǐng shǔ zhàn dào the Qinling plank road to Shu, a historical mountain road from Shaanxi to Sichuan
明修栈道,暗渡陈仓 明修棧道,暗渡陳倉 míng xiū zhàn dào , àn dù chén cāng lit. repair the plank road by day while secretly crossing the Wei River 渭河[Wei4 He2] at Chencang (idiom, refers to a stratagem used by Liu Bang 劉邦|刘邦[Liu2 Bang1] in 206 BC against Xiang Yu 項羽|项羽[Xiang4 Yu3] of Chu) / fig. to feign one thing while doing another / to cheat under cover of a diversion

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