Read Edit View history 打蛇打七寸 dǎshédǎqīcùn hit the target where it hurts Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 打蛇打七寸 dǎshédǎqīcùn hit the target where it hurts literally "to strike a snake at its seventh inch," which refers to the location of its heart; used to describe hitting someone's weak point or handling a problem by addressing its most critical part Frequency Written text 0.031 per million Cross-References Variant of 打蛇打到七寸子 dǎshédǎdàoqīcùnzi Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
打蛇打七寸 dǎshédǎqīcùn hit the target where it hurts literally "to strike a snake at its seventh inch," which refers to the location of its heart; used to describe hitting someone's weak point or handling a problem by addressing its most critical part Frequency Written text 0.031 per million Cross-References Variant of 打蛇打到七寸子 dǎshédǎdàoqīcùnzi Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)