挾天子以令天下 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 挟天子以令天下 xiétiānzǐyǐlìngtiānxià ㄒㄧㄝˊ ㄊㄧㄢ ㄗˇ ㄧˇ ㄌㄧㄥˋ ㄊㄧㄢ ㄒㄧㄚˋ hold the feudal overlord and you control the whole country expr. Character by character 挾(xié)clasp under the arm 天(tiān)day 子(zǐ)son 以(yǐ)use 令(lìng)order 天(tiān)day 下(xià)down A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0