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拔苗助长

bá miáo zhù zhǎng

HSK 6 4-character word Traditional 拔苗助長

What 拔苗助长 means

1. to spoil things through excessive enthusiasm (idiom)

The characters in 拔苗助长

• 拔báto pull up; to pull out; to draw out by suction
• 苗miáosprout
• 助zhùto help; to assist
• 长chánglong; (bound form) length; (bound form) strong point; forte

Where 拔苗助长 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · áng–bǎ (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
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