截长补短
jié​cháng​bǔ​duǎn

to balance strengths and weaknesses

  • created sense approved 截长补短/截長補短 · jié​cháng​bǔ​duǎn · to balance strengths and weaknesses — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    截长补短 / 截長補短

    jié​cháng​bǔ​duǎn

    to balance strengths and weaknesses

    to take from the long to supplement the short; to offset deficiencies by using an abundance of something else; to complement each other by using strengths to make up for weaknesses

    截 (literal) → 截 · jié · to cut off 长 (literal) → 长/長 · cháng · forte 补短 (literal) → 补短/補短 · bǔ​duǎn · to make up for a deficit

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

    created sense