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挖肉補瘡

简挖肉补疮 · 繁挖肉補瘡

Mandarin · pinyin wā ròu bǔ chuāng

to cut one's flesh to cover a sore (idiom); faced with a current crisis, to make it worse by a temporary expedient

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挖: wā · dig, dig out, gouge out, scoop
肉: ròu · flesh; meat; Kangxi radical 130
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补: bǔ · mend, patch, fix, repair, restore
疮: chuāng · tumor, boil, sore, wound

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1–4–3–1 · wa1 rou4 bu3 chuang1

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waat3 juk6 bou2 cong1

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