揠苗助长 yàmiáozhùzhǎng to spoil things through excessive enthusiasm Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 揠苗助长 揠苗助長 yàmiáozhùzhǎng to spoil things through excessive enthusiasm to spoil things through a desire for quick success, specifically by interfering with the natural process of growth; literally "to pull up seedlings to help them grow" Frequency Written text 0.112 per million Cross-References Same as 拔苗助长 bámiáozhùzhǎng Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
揠苗助长 揠苗助長 yàmiáozhùzhǎng to spoil things through excessive enthusiasm to spoil things through a desire for quick success, specifically by interfering with the natural process of growth; literally "to pull up seedlings to help them grow" Frequency Written text 0.112 per million Cross-References Same as 拔苗助长 bámiáozhùzhǎng Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
