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对症下药

duì zhèng xià yào

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 4-character word Traditional 對症下藥

对症下药 (duì zhèng xià yào) means "lit. to prescribe the right medicine for an illness (idiom); fig. to study a problem to find the right way to solve it; ". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

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

• 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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