画饼充饥
Traditional form:
畫餅充飢
Pinyin (reading):
huàbǐngchōngjī
Definitions:
- lit. to allay one's hunger using a picture of a cake
- to feed on illusions (idiom)
Characters:
- 画 - picture, painting, drawing; to draw
- 饼 - rice-cake, pastry, biscuit
- 充 - to fill, to supply; to be full
- 饥 - hungry, starving; hunger, famine
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