Read Edit View history 买椟还珠 mǎidúhuánzhū poor judgment Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 买椟还珠 (買櫝還珠) mǎidúhuánzhū poor judgment idiom to show poor judgment by prioritizing the superficial container over the valuable contents; to lack a sense of values (literally: to buy the box and return the pearls) Frequency Written text 0.070 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
买椟还珠 (買櫝還珠) mǎidúhuánzhū poor judgment idiom to show poor judgment by prioritizing the superficial container over the valuable contents; to lack a sense of values (literally: to buy the box and return the pearls) Frequency Written text 0.070 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)