对症下药 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 對症下藥 duìzhèngxiàyào ㄉㄨㄟˋ ㄓㄥˋ ㄒㄧㄚˋ ㄧㄠˋ lit. to prescribe the right medicine for an illness (idiom) fig. to study a problem to find the right way to solve it to take appropriate steps Character by character 对(duì)right 症(zhèng)disease 下(xià)down 药(yào)leaf of the iris A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0