doctors like to treat those who are not sick so that they can get credit for the patient's "recovery" (idiom)
trad. 醫之好治不病以為功
Also written 醫之好治不病以為功【yī zhī hào zhì bù bìng yǐ wéi gōng】
Characters in this word
9医
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medical, medicine, doctor, to cure, to treat
- Pinyin
- yī
- Traditional
- 醫
- Strokes
- 7
- Frequency
- 35751 of 2500
之
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(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的[de5]), him, her, it
- Pinyin
- zhī
- Strokes
- 3
- Frequency
- 475 of 2500
好
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good, appropriate; proper, all right!, (before a verb) easy to, (before a verb) good to, (before an adjective for exclamatory effect) so, (verb complement indicating completion), (of two people) close; on intimate terms, (after a form of address) hello
- Pinyin
- hǎo
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 11 of 2500
治
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to rule, to govern, to manage, to control, to harness (a river), to treat (a disease), to wipe out (a pest), to punish, to research
- Pinyin
- zhì
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 6571 of 2500
不
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no; not so, (bound form) not; un-
- Pinyin
- bù
- Strokes
- 4
- Frequency
- 9 of 2500
病
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illness, CL:場|场[chang2], disease, to fall ill, defect
- Pinyin
- bìng
- Strokes
- 10
- Frequency
- 1337 of 2500
以
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old variant of 以[yi3]
- Pinyin
- yǐ
- Traditional
- 㕥
- Strokes
- 4
- Frequency
- 367 of 2500
为
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as (in the capacity of), to take sth as, to act as, to serve as, to behave as, to become, to be, to do, by (in the passive voice)
- Pinyin
- wéi
- Traditional
- 為
- Strokes
- 4
- Frequency
- 129 of 2500
功
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meritorious deed or service, achievement, result, service, accomplishment, work (physics)
- Pinyin
- gōng
- Strokes
- 5
- Frequency
- 27779 of 2500