对症下药
Traditional form:
對症下藥
Pinyin (reading):
duìzhèngxiàyào
Definitions:
- lit. to prescribe the right medicine for an illness (idiom); fig. to study a problem to find the right way to solve it
- to take appropriate steps
Characters:
- 对 - correct, right; facing, opposed
- 症 - ailment, disease, illness
- 下 - below, underneath; inferior; to bring down; next
- 药 - drugs, medicine; the leaf of the Dahurian angelica plant
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