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头痛医头
tóu​tòng​yī​tóu

to treat the symptoms

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
头痛医头 頭痛醫頭 tóu​tòng​yī​tóu
to treat the symptoms
to treat only the symptoms of a problem rather than the root cause; being reactive rather than proactive

Frequency

Written text
0.176 per million

Cross-References

See

  • 头痛医头,脚痛医脚 tóu​tòng​yī​tóu​jiǎo​tòng​yī​jiǎo

Sources

Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)