頭痛醫頭,腳痛醫腳
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Chinese[edit]
head; (noun suffix) | ache; pain; sorrow | medical; medicine; doctor medical; medicine; doctor; to cure; to treat |
head; (noun suffix) | role; foot; base | ache; pain; sorrow | medical; medicine; doctor medical; medicine; doctor; to cure; to treat |
role; foot; base | |||
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trad. (頭痛醫頭,腳痛醫腳) | 頭 | 痛 | 醫 | 頭 | , | 腳 | 痛 | 醫 | 腳 | |
simp. (头痛医头,脚痛医脚) | 头 | 痛 | 医 | 头 | , | 脚 | 痛 | 医 | 脚 | |
Literally: “treat the head when the head hurts, treat the foot when the foot hurts”. |
Pronunciation[edit]
Idiom[edit]
頭痛醫頭,腳痛醫腳
- to treat symptoms but not the disease; to take stopgap measures rather than getting to the root cause of the problem