to buy a wooden box and return the pearls inside; to show poor judgment (idiom)
trad. 買櫝還珠
Also written 買櫝還珠【mǎi dú huán zhū】
Characters in this word
4买
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to buy, to purchase
- Pinyin
- mǎi
- Traditional
- 買
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 356 of 2500
椟
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cabinet, case, casket
- Pinyin
- dú
- Traditional
- 櫝
- Strokes
- 12
还
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surname Huan
- Pinyin
- Huán
- Traditional
- 還
- Strokes
- 7
- Frequency
- 49 of 2500
珠
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bead, pearl, CL:粒[li4],顆|颗[ke1]
- Pinyin
- zhū
- Strokes
- 10
- Frequency
- 20415 of 2500