to invert the importance of things (i.e. stress the unimportant and neglect the important); lacking a sense of perspective; to put the cart before the horse
trad. 輕重倒置
Also written 輕重倒置【qīng zhòng dào zhì】
Characters in this word
4轻
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light, easy, gentle, soft, reckless, unimportant, frivolous, small in number, unstressed, neutral, to disparage
- Pinyin
- qīng
- Traditional
- 輕
- Strokes
- 9
- Frequency
- 5057 of 2500
重
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to repeat, repetition, again, re-, classifier: layer
- Pinyin
- chóng
- Strokes
- 9
- Frequency
- 2482 of 2500
倒
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to fall; to collapse; to lie horizontally, to fail; to go bankrupt, to overthrow, to change (trains or buses), to move around, to resell at a profit
- Pinyin
- dǎo
- Strokes
- 10
- Frequency
- 578 of 2500
置
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to install, to place, to put, to buy
- Pinyin
- zhì
- Strokes
- 13
- Frequency
- 9924 of 2500