created sense approved 画饼充饥/畫餅充飢 · huàbǐngchōngjī · to feed on illusions — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"
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
画饼 (literal) → 画饼/畫餅 · huàbǐng · pie in the sky 充饥 (literal) → 充饥/充飢 · chōngjī · to allay one's hunger
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created sense approved 画饼充饥/畫餅充飢 · huàbǐngchōngjī · to have a reputation without substance — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"
画饼充饥 / 畫餅充飢
huàbǐngchōngjī
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
画饼 (literal) → 画饼/畫餅 · huàbǐng · pie in the sky 充饥 (literal) → 充饥/充飢 · chōngjī · to allay one's hunger
Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition