画饼充饥 — Chinese idiom
画饼充饥
huà bǐng chōng jī
Traditional: 畫餅充飢
Meaning
- lit. to allay one's hunger using a picture of a cake
- to feed on illusions
Character by character
- 画huàpicture, painting, drawing; to draw
- 饼bǐngrice-cake, pastry, biscuit
- 充chōngto fill, to supply; to be full
- 饥jīhungry, starving; hunger, famine
Idioms sharing a character
- 指手画脚 zhǐ shǒu huà jiǎo
- 照猫画虎 zhào māo huà hǔ
- 琴棋书画 qín qí shū huà
- 画地为牢 huà dì wéi láo
- 画地自限 huà dì zì xiàn
- 画荻教子 huà dí jiào zǐ
- 画虎类犬 huà hǔ lèi quǎn
- 画蛇添足 huà shé tiān zú
- 画龙点睛 huà lóng diǎn jīng
- 充耳不闻 chōng ěr bù wén
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