画饼充饥 huàbǐngchōngjī to feed on illusions Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 画饼充饥 畫餅充飢 huàbǐngchōngjī to feed on illusions (idiom) lit. to draw a cake to satisfy hunger; to console oneself with fantasies or unrealistic dreams to have a reputation without substance (idiom) to provide something that has a name but no practical value or reality, thus failing to solve a problem Frequency Movie subtitles 0.030 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.161 per million Cross-References Synonym 望梅止渴 wàngméizhǐkě Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
画饼充饥 畫餅充飢 huàbǐngchōngjī to feed on illusions (idiom) lit. to draw a cake to satisfy hunger; to console oneself with fantasies or unrealistic dreams to have a reputation without substance (idiom) to provide something that has a name but no practical value or reality, thus failing to solve a problem Frequency Movie subtitles 0.030 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.161 per million Cross-References Synonym 望梅止渴 wàngméizhǐkě Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
