轻重主次 (輕重主次)
qīng zhòng zhǔ cì
Pinyin

Definition

轻重主次 (輕重主次)
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qīng zhòng zhǔ cì
  1. to invert the importance of things (i.e. stress the incidental and neglect the main point)
  2. lacking a sense of perspective
  3. to put the cart before the horse

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

zhǔ jué
  1. 1 leading role
  2. 2 lead
zhǔ tí
  1. 1 theme
  2. 2 subject
dì zhǔ
  1. 1 landlord
  2. 2 landowner
  3. 3 host
  1. 1 next in sequence
  2. 2 second
  3. 3 the second (day, time etc)
  4. 4 secondary
  5. 5 vice-
  6. 6 sub-
  7. 7 infra-
  8. 8 inferior quality
  9. 9 substandard
  10. 10 order
  11. 11 sequence
  12. 12 hypo- (chemistry)
  13. 13 classifier for enumerated events: time
chóng
  1. 1 to repeat
  2. 2 repetition
  3. 3 again
  4. 4 re-
  5. 5 classifier: layer

Idioms (20)

一言为重
yī yán wéi zhòng
  1. 1 each word carries weight
  2. 2 a promise must be kept (idiom)
三番五次
sān fān wǔ cì
  1. 1 over and over again (idiom)
上一次当,学一次乖
shàng yī cì dàng , xué yī cì guāi
  1. 1 to take sth as a lesson for next time (idiom)
  2. 2 once bitten, twice shy
不由自主
bù yóu zì zhǔ
  1. 1 can't help; involuntarily (idiom)
不知轻重
bù zhī qīng zhòng
  1. 1 lit. not knowing what's important (idiom); no appreciation of the gravity of things
  2. 2 naive
  3. 3 doesn't know who's who
  4. 4 no sense of priorities