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  • martingale (part of a horse's harness)
  • used in 鞅鞅[yang1 yang1]
  • wooden yoke for a draft ox
  • (literary) busy (with work etc)
  • ox harnessed for plowing
  • dissatisfied; displeased; aggrieved
  • Shang Yang (c. 390-338 BC), legalist philosopher and statesman of the state of Qin 秦國|秦国[Qin2 guo2], whose reforms paved the way for the eventual unification of the Chinese empire by the Qin dynasty 秦朝|秦朝[Qin2 chao2]
  • wooden yoke for a draft ox
Trad. 商鞅變法
  • Shang Yang's political reform of Qin state 秦國|秦国 of 356 BC and 350 BC, that put it on the road to world domination
Trad. 逸塵斷鞅
  • lit. kicking up the dust and breaking the harness
  • fig. to ride like the wind (idiom)

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