偃旗息鼓 Save Sign in to save words yǎnqíxīgǔ ㄧㄢˇ ㄑㄧˊ ㄒㄧ ㄍㄨˇ lit. lay down the flag and still the drums (idiom) fig. to cease to give in Character by character 偃(yǎn)surname Yan 旗(qí)flag 息(xī)breath 鼓(gǔ)drum A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0