針鋒相對 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 针锋相对 On the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list, at CEFR level C2. zhēnfēngxiāngduì ㄓㄣ ㄈㄥ ㄒㄧㄤ ㄉㄨㄟˋ to oppose each other with equal harshness (idiom) tit for tat measure for measure Character by character 針(zhēn)needle 鋒(fēng)point of a spear 相(xiāng)each other 對(duì)right A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0 国际中文教育中文水平等级标准, 中华人民共和国教育部, MIT