拔苗助长

Every meaning

In the Library

• 今天，人们常说“拔苗助长”，意思是太急了，想让事情快一点儿，最后反而把事情弄坏了。

  拔苗助长 · Pulling up seedlings to help them grow · HSK 4

Its characters

• 拔báto pull out; to pull up
• 苗miáosprout; seedling
• 助zhùto help; to assist
• 长zhǎngto grow

Words with 拔

• 海拔hǎibáheight above sea level
• 选拔xuǎnbáto select
• 提拔tíbáto promote (to a higher post)
• 挺拔tǐngbátall and straight
• 一毛不拔yìmáo-bùbástingy
• 出类拔萃chūlèi-bácuìoutstanding
• 坚韧不拔jiānrèn-bùbátenacious
• 不能自拔bùnéng-zìbáunable to extricate oneself

Words with 苗

• 禾苗hémiáoseedlings (of cereal crops)
• 苗条miáotiaoslim
• 苗头miáotousign of a development
• 疫苗yìmiáovaccine
• 揠苗助长yàmiáo-zhùzhǎngto spoil things through excessive zeal