田忌賽馬 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 田忌赛马 tiánjìsàimǎ ㄊㄧㄢˊ ㄐㄧˋ ㄙㄞˋ ㄇㄚˇ Tian Ji races his horses (and accepts one loss in order to ensure two wins) (idiom) Character by character 田(tián)surname Tian 忌(jì)be jealous of 賽(sài)compete 馬(mǎ)surname Ma A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0