頭痛醫頭
tóu​tòng​yī​tóu

to treat the symptoms

  • created reference approved 头痛医头/頭痛醫頭 → 头痛医头，脚痛医脚/頭痛醫頭，腳痛醫腳 (see) — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    头痛医头 / 頭痛醫頭 tóu​tòng​yī​tóu

    头痛医头，脚痛医脚 / 頭痛醫頭，腳痛醫腳 tóu​tòng​yī​tóu​jiǎo​tòng​yī​jiǎo

    see

    Changed: source (simp), source (trad), source pinyin, target (simp), target (trad), target pinyin, type

    created reference

  • created sense approved 头痛医头/頭痛醫頭 · tóu​tòng​yī​tóu · to treat the symptoms — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    头痛医头 / 頭痛醫頭

    tóu​tòng​yī​tóu

    to treat the symptoms

    to treat only the symptoms of a problem rather than the root cause; being reactive rather than proactive

    头痛 (literal) → 头痛/頭痛 · tóu​tòng · headache 医 (literal) → 医/醫 · yī · to treat 头 (literal) → 头/頭 · tóu · head

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

    created sense