以虚带实 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 以虛帶實 yǐxūdàishí ㄧˇ ㄒㄩ ㄉㄞˋ ㄕˊ to use the abstract to guide the concrete idiom Character by character 以(yǐ)use 虚(xū)emptiness 带(dài)band 实(shí)real A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0