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南辕北辙
nán​yuán​běi​zhé

counterproductive

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
南辕北辙 (南轅北轍) nán​yuán​běi​zhé
counterproductive idiom
to act in a way that defeats one's purpose

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.120 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.543 per million

Details

HSK 2.0
Level 6

Sources

Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)