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鞅
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Definitions
- 1. wooden yoke for a draft ox
Words Containing 鞅
(literary) busy (with work etc)
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
wooden yoke for a draft ox
Shang Yang (c. 390-338 BC), legalist philosopher and statesman of the state of Qin 秦國|秦国[qín guó], whose reforms paved the way for the eventual unification of the Chinese empire by the Qin dynasty 秦朝|秦朝[qín cháo]
dissatisfied; displeased; aggrieved
lit. kicking up the dust and breaking the harness
ox harnessed for plowing