棋逢敌手
qí féng dí shǒu
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Traditional: 棋逢敵手
To meet an opponent of exactly equal skill, so that neither side can easily win. Used for evenly matched players, teams or rivals in any kind of contest.
Đánh cờ gặp đúng đối thủ ngang tài: hai bên ngang sức ngang tài, khó phân thắng bại. Dùng cho các đấu thủ, đội bóng hay đối thủ cạnh tranh cân sức.
Register: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 062 (2026-11-13). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ ; en.wiktionary Vietnamese entries via kaikki.org extract, snapshot 2026-07-31 (CC BY-SA 4.0): Hán-Việt reading 棋 = kì; etymology of “kì phùng địch thủ” = 棋逢敵手 · Vietnamese cognate: Idiomer entry “kì phùng địch thủ” (ki-phung-dich-thu). Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Equivalents & related
Common questions
What does “棋逢敌手” mean?
To meet an opponent of exactly equal skill, so that neither side can easily win. Used for evenly matched players, teams or rivals in any kind of contest. Literally: at chess, meeting an equal opponent
Is “棋逢敌手” formal or informal?
棋逢敌手 is generally neutral.