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对症下药

duì zhèng xià yào

4-character word Traditional 對症下藥

What 对症下药 means

  1. lit. to prescribe the right medicine for an illness (idiom); fig. to study a problem to find the right way to solve it
  2. to take appropriate steps

The characters in 对症下药

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