枕戈寝甲 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 枕戈寢甲 zhěngēqǐnjiǎ ㄓㄣˇ ㄍㄜ ㄑㄧㄣˇ ㄐㄧㄚˇ lit. to sleep on one's armor with a spear as a pillow (idiom) fig. to keep ready for battle at all times Character by character 枕(zhěn)pillow 戈(gē)surname Ge 寝(qǐn)lie down to sleep or rest 甲(jiǎ)first of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 shítiāngān A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0