息事寧人 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 息事宁人 xīshìníngrén ㄒㄧ ㄕˋ ㄋㄧㄥˊ ㄖㄣˊ to keep the peace to patch up a quarrel (idiom) Character by character 息(xī)breath 事(shì)matter 寧(níng)surname Ning 人(rén)person A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0