一以貫之 Save Create a free account to save words Simplified: 一以贯之 yīyǐguànzhī ㄧ ㄧˇ ㄍㄨㄢˋ ㄓ 男 女 (of a principle, purpose etc) consistently upheld adhered to from beginning to end idiom Character by character 一(yī)one 以(yǐ)use 貫(guàn)pierce through 之(zhī)(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的 de) Sign up for a free account to save words and review them A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0