Read Edit View history 拔苗助长 bámiáozhùzhǎng to spoil things through excessive zeal Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 拔苗助长 拔苗助長 bámiáozhùzhǎng to spoil things through excessive zeal To spoil things through excessive enthusiasm or by being too impatient for success, originating from the Gongsun Chou I chapter of Mencius; literally to pull up rice seedlings to help them grow, which only results in killing the plants Frequency Written text 0.394 per million Details HSK 2.0 Level 6 Cross-References Same as 揠苗助长 yàmiáozhùzhǎng Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
拔苗助长 拔苗助長 bámiáozhùzhǎng to spoil things through excessive zeal To spoil things through excessive enthusiasm or by being too impatient for success, originating from the Gongsun Chou I chapter of Mencius; literally to pull up rice seedlings to help them grow, which only results in killing the plants Frequency Written text 0.394 per million Details HSK 2.0 Level 6 Cross-References Same as 揠苗助长 yàmiáozhùzhǎng Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)