招兵买马 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 招兵買馬 zhāobīngmǎimǎ ㄓㄠ ㄅㄧㄥ ㄇㄞˇ ㄇㄚˇ lit. to recruit soldiers and buy horses (idiom) fig. to raise an army to recruit new staff Character by character 招(zhāo)recruit 兵(bīng)soldiers 买(mǎi)buy 马(mǎ)surname Ma A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0