yǐ piān gài quándictionary entry
DEFINITION CC-CEDICT
(lit.) to take a part for the whole / to generalize
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Original source entry:

以偏概全 以偏概全 [yi3 pian1 gai4 quan2] /(lit.) to take a part for the whole/to generalize/

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以偏概全
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