买椟还珠 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 買櫝還珠 mǎidúhuánzhū ㄇㄞˇ ㄉㄨˊ ㄏㄨㄢˊ ㄓㄨ to buy a wooden box and return the pearls inside to show poor judgment (idiom) Character by character 买(mǎi)buy 椟(dú)cabinet 还(huán)give back 珠(zhū)bead A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0