拾遗补缺 — Chinese idiom
拾遗补缺
shí yí bǔ quē
Traditional: 拾遺補缺
Meaning
- to remedy omissions and correct errors
Character by character
- 拾shíto collect, to pick up, to tidy up; ten (bankers'
- 遗yíto lose; a lost article
- 补bǔto fix, to mend, to patch, to restore
- 缺quēto lack, to be short; vacancy, gap, deficit
Idioms sharing a character
- 不可收拾 bù kě shōu shi
- 俯拾皆是 fǔ shí jiē shì
- 拾人涕唾 shí rén tì tuò
- 拾人牙慧 shí rén yá huì
- 拾级而上 shè jí ér shàng
- 拾金不昧 shí jīn bù mèi
- 路不拾遗 lù bù shí yí
- 道不拾遗 dào bù shí yí
- 不遗余力 bù yí yú lì
- 千古遗恨 qiān gǔ yí hèn
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