曉以大義 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 晓以大义 xiǎoyǐdàyì ㄒㄧㄠˇ ㄧˇ ㄉㄚˋ ㄧˋ to persuade by appealing to principle to reason with sb on moral grounds idiom Character by character 曉(xiǎo)dawn 以(yǐ)use 大(dà)big 義(yì)surname Yi A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0