头痛医头，脚痛医脚

Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of 头痛医头，脚痛医脚 – see 頭痛醫頭，腳痛醫腳 (“treat the head when the head hurts, treat the foot when the foot hurts; to treat symptoms but not the disease; to take stopgap measures rather than getting to the root cause of the problem”). (This term is the simplified form of 頭痛醫頭，腳痛醫腳).

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.