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画饼

huà bǐng

2-character word Traditional 畫餅

What 画饼 means

1. (fig.) to make empty or unrealistic promises; to engage in unrealistic planning

The characters in 画饼

• 画huàto draw; to paint; picture; painting; to draw (a line) (variant of 划
• 饼bǐnground flat cake; cookie; cake

Example sentences

• 你这样就是画饼充饥！
  You're just comforting yourself with a fantasy!

Words starting with 画饼

• 画饼充饥huà bǐng chōng jīlit. to allay one's hunger using a picture of a cake; to feed on illusions (idiom)

Sounds the same

Read huà bǐng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 话柄a pretext for gossip; a matter for derision