拔苗助长 bámiáozhùzhǎng in a sentence
Spoil or damage by being too helpful
拔苗助长 (bámiáozhùzhǎng) means Spoil or damage by being too helpful. Below are 2 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
教育急不得， 拔苗助长 只会适得其反。
Jiàoyù jí bu dé, bámiáozhùzhǎng zhǐ huì shìdéqífǎn.
Education cannot be rushed; forcing growth only backfires.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 拔苗助长
让四岁的孩子学高等数学，无异于 拔苗助长 。
Ràng sì suì de háizi xué gāoděng shùxué, wú yì yú bámiáozhùzhǎng.
Making a four-year-old study advanced maths is no different from pulling up shoots to make them grow.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 拔苗助长
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How is 拔苗助长 used in a sentence?
This page shows 2 sentences using 拔苗助长 (bámiáozhùzhǎng, "Spoil or damage by being too helpful"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
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Is 拔苗助长 an HSK word?
Yes — 拔苗助长 is on the official HSK 6 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 6 page.
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The dictionary page for 拔苗助长 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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