| 三七开定论 |
sān qī kāi dìng lùn |
thirty percent failure, seventy percent success, the official PRC verdict on Mao Zedong |
| 三 |
Sān |
surname San |
| 三 |
sān |
three / 3 |
| 三七 |
sān qī |
pseudoginseng (Panax pseudoginseng), hemostatic herb |
| 三七开 |
sān qī kāi |
ratio seventy to thirty / thirty percent failure, seventy percent success |
| 七 |
qī |
seven / 7 |
| 开 |
kāi |
to open (transitive or intransitive) / (of ships, vehicles, troops etc) to start / to turn on; to put in operation; to operate; to run / to boil / to write out (a prescription, check, invoice etc) / (directional complement) away; off / carat (gold) / abbr. for Kelvin, 开尔文 / abbr. for 开本, book format |
| 定 |
dìng |
to fix; to set; to make definite / to subscribe to (a newspaper etc); to book (tickets etc); to order (goods etc) / to congeal; to coagulate / (literary) definitely |
| 定论 |
dìng lùn |
final conclusion / accepted argument |
| 论 |
Lún |
abbr. for 论语, The Analects (of Confucius) |
| 论 |
lùn |
opinion / view / theory / doctrine / to discuss / to talk about / to regard / to consider / per / by the (kilometer, hour etc) |