截長補短 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 截长补短 jiéchángbǔduǎn ㄐㄧㄝˊ ㄔㄤˊ ㄅㄨˇ ㄉㄨㄢˇ take from the long to supplement the short (idiom) to offset each other's deficiencies to complement each other Character by character 截(jié)cut off 長(cháng)long 補(bǔ)repair 短(duǎn)short A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0