对症发药
duì​zhèng​fā​yào

to prescribe the right medicine

  • created reference approved 对症发药/對症發藥 → 对症下药/對症下藥 (synonym) — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    对症发药 / 對症發藥 duì​zhèng​fā​yào

    对症下药 / 對症下藥 duì​zhèng​xià​yào

    synonym

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    created reference

  • created sense approved 对症发药/對症發藥 · duì​zhèng​fā​yào · to prescribe the right medicine — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    对症发药 / 對症發藥

    duì​zhèng​fā​yào

    to prescribe the right medicine

    Literally "to prescribe the right medicine for an illness", meaning to study a problem to find the right way to solve it or to take appropriate steps; appropriate steps.

    对症 (literal) → 对症/對症 · duì​zhèng · to suit the symptoms 发 (literal) → 发/發 · fā · to send out 药 (literal) → 药/藥 · yào · medicine

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense