因陋就簡 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 因陋就简 yīnlòujiùjiǎn ㄧㄣ ㄌㄡˋ ㄐㄧㄡˋ ㄐㄧㄢˇ crude but simple methods (idiom) use whatever methods you can to do things simply and thriftily It's not pretty but it works. Character by character 因(yīn)cause 陋(lòu)low 就(jiù)then 簡(jiǎn)simple A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0