to cut one's flesh to cover a sore (idiom); faced with a current crisis, to make it worse by a temporary expedient
trad. 挖肉補瘡
Also written 挖肉補瘡【wā ròu bǔ chuāng】
Characters in this word
4挖
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to dig, to excavate, to scoop out
- Pinyin
- wā
- Strokes
- 9
- Frequency
- 2621 of 2500
肉
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meat, flesh, pulp (of a fruit), (coll.) (of a fruit) squashy, (of a person) flabby, irresolute, Kangxi radical 130
- Pinyin
- ròu
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 1834 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
疮
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sore, skin ulcer
- Pinyin
- chuāng
- Traditional
- 瘡
- Strokes
- 9