huà bǐng chōng jī

Traditional: 畫餅充飢

画饼充饥 (huà bǐng chōng jī) is a Chinese word meaning “lit. to allay one's hunger using a picture of a cake; to feed on illusions (idiom)”.

Meanings

  1. 1lit. to allay one's hunger using a picture of a cake
  2. 2to feed on illusions (idiom)

Characters in 画饼充饥

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