lit. not eating for fear of choking (idiom); fig. to cut off one's nose to spite one's face; to avoid sth essential because of a slight risk
trad. 因噎廢食
Also written 因噎廢食【yīn yē fèi shí】
Characters in this word
4因
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old variant of 因[yin1]
- Pinyin
- yīn
- Traditional
- 囙
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 1342 of 2500
噎
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to choke (on), to choke up, to suffocate
- Pinyin
- yē
- Strokes
- 15
- Frequency
- 25243 of 2500
废
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to abolish, to abandon, to abrogate, to discard, to depose, to oust, crippled, abandoned, waste
- Pinyin
- fèi
- Traditional
- 廢
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 8695 of 2500
食
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to eat, food, animal feed, eclipse
- Pinyin
- shí
- Strokes
- 9
- Frequency
- 9712 of 2500