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对症下药
duì zhèng xià yào
What 对症下药 means
- lit. to prescribe the right medicine for an illness (idiom); fig. to study a problem to find the right way to solve it
- to take appropriate steps
The characters in 对症下药
- 对duìright; correct; towards; at; for; concerning; regarding
- 症zhèngdisease; illness
- 下xiàdown; downwards; below
- 药yàoleaf of the iris; variant of 药
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