拔苗助長

Chinese

		pull up; pull out; select pull up; pull out; select; promote	sprout; seedling; descendant sprout; seedling; descendant; symptom of a trend; young; vaccine; Miao tribe	to encourage growth; to foster; to contribute to a development to encourage growth; to foster; to contribute to a development; to drive
trad. (拔苗助長)		拔	苗	助長
simp. (拔苗助长)		拔	苗	助长
Literally: “to try to help the shoots grow by pulling them upward”.

Etymology

See 揠苗助長／揠苗助长 (yàmiáozhùzhǎng).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bámiáozhùzhǎng

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄚˊ ㄇㄧㄠˊ ㄓㄨˋ ㄓㄤˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bat⁶ miu⁴ zo⁶ zoeng²
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): poa̍t-biâu-chō͘-tióng

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bámiáozhùzhǎng
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄚˊ ㄇㄧㄠˊ ㄓㄨˋ ㄓㄤˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bámiáojhùjhǎng
    • Wade–Giles: pa²-miao²-chu⁴-chang³
    • Yale: bá-myáu-jù-jǎng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: barmiaujuhjaang
    • Palladius: бамяочжучжан (bamjaočžučžan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pä³⁵ mi̯ɑʊ̯³⁵ ʈ͡ʂu⁵¹ ʈ͡ʂɑŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bámiáorzhùzhǎng
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄚˊ ㄇㄧㄠˊㄦ ㄓㄨˋ ㄓㄤˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bámiáorjhùjhǎng
    • Wade–Giles: pa²-miao²-ʼrh-chu⁴-chang³
    • Yale: bá-myáur-jù-jǎng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: barmiauljuhjaang
    • Palladius: бамяорчжучжан (bamjaorčžučžan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pä³⁵ mi̯aʊ̯ɻʷ³⁵ ʈ͡ʂu⁵¹ ʈ͡ʂɑŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: bat⁶ miu⁴ zo⁶ zoeng²
    • Yale: baht mìuh joh jéung
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bat⁹ miu⁴ dzo⁶ dzoeng²
    • Guangdong Romanization: bed⁶ miu⁴ zo⁶ zêng²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɐt̚² miːu̯²¹ t͡sɔː²² t͡sœːŋ³⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: poa̍t-biâu-chō͘-tióng
    • Tâi-lô: pua̍t-biâu-tsōo-tióng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: poadbiauzoxdiorng
    • IPA (Xiamen): /puat̚⁴⁻³² biau²⁴⁻²² t͡sɔ²²⁻²¹ tiɔŋ⁵³/

Idiom

拔苗助長

1. (figurative) to be hasty and use inappropriate methods in order to achieve a goal quickly, but by doing so ruin things instead and fail in the end

Synonyms

• 揠苗助長／揠苗助长 (yàmiáozhùzhǎng)
• (Hokkien) 攑韭菜接麥仔／𫽥韭菜接麦仔