四两拨千斤 Save Create a free account to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 四兩撥千斤 sìliǎngbōqiānjīn ㄙˋ ㄌㄧㄤˇ ㄅㄛ ㄑㄧㄢ ㄐㄧㄣ four ounces can move a thousand catties (idiom) lit. to achieve much with little effort fig. Character by character 四(sì)four 两(liǎng)two 拨(bō)push aside with the hand, foot, a stick etc 千(qiān)thousand 斤(jīn)catty 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