因时制宜 — Chinese idiom
因时制宜
yīn shí zhì yí
Traditional: 因時制宜
Meaning
- to use methods appropriate to the current situation
Character by character
- 因yīncause, reason; by; because
- 时shítime, season; period, era, age
- 制zhìsystem; to establish; to manufacture; to overpower
- 宜yífitting, proper, right; what one should do
Idioms sharing a character
- 互为因果 hù wéi yīn guǒ
- 前因后果 qián yīn hòu guǒ
- 因人成事 yīn rén chéng shì
- 因人而异 yīn rén ér yì
- 因公殉职 yīn gōng xùn zhí
- 因利乘便 yīn lì chéng biàn
- 因势利导 yīn shì lì dǎo
- 因噎废食 yīn yē fèi shí
- 因地制宜 yīn dì zhì yí
- 因小失大 yīn xiǎo shī dà
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