旁敲側擊 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 旁敲侧击 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 側(cè)the side 擊(jī)hit A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0