lit. pull down the east wall to repair the west (idiom); fig. temporary expedient; Rob Peter to pay Paul
trad. 拆東補西
Also written 拆東補西【chāi dōng bǔ xī】
Characters in this word
4拆
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to tear open, to tear down, to tear apart, to open
- Pinyin
- chāi
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 5175 of 2500
东
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surname Dong
- Pinyin
- Dōng
- Traditional
- 東
- Strokes
- 5
- Frequency
- 5663 of 2500
补
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to repair, to patch, to mend, to make up for, to fill (a vacancy), to supplement
- Pinyin
- bǔ
- Traditional
- 補
- Strokes
- 7
- Frequency
- 10841 of 2500
西
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the West, abbr. for Spain 西班牙[Xi1 ban1 ya2], Spanish
- Pinyin
- Xī
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 2156 of 2500