Read Edit View history 取长补短 qǔchángbǔduǎn complement Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 取长补短 (取長補短) qǔchángbǔduǎn complement idiom to use others' strengths or one's own strong points to make up for weaknesses, often as an idiom from Mencius offset idiom to use one thing in place of another or to balance out a loss in one area with a gain in another Frequency Movie subtitles 0.120 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 1.50 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
取长补短 (取長補短) qǔchángbǔduǎn complement idiom to use others' strengths or one's own strong points to make up for weaknesses, often as an idiom from Mencius offset idiom to use one thing in place of another or to balance out a loss in one area with a gain in another Frequency Movie subtitles 0.120 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 1.50 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)