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