旁敲侧击 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 旁敲側擊 pángqiāocèjī ㄆㄤˊ ㄑㄧㄠ ㄘㄜˋ ㄐㄧ to make insinuations to take an indirect approach (in making inquiries) (idiom) Character by character 旁(páng)one side 敲(qiāo)hit 侧(cè)the side 击(jī)hit A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0