抱薪救火 Save Sign in to save words bàoxīnjiùhuǒ ㄅㄠˋ ㄒㄧㄣ ㄐㄧㄡˋ ㄏㄨㄛˇ lit. to carry firewood to put out a fire (idiom) fig. to make a problem worse by inappropriate action Character by character 抱(bào)hold 薪(xīn)firewood 救(jiù)save 火(huǒ)surname Huo A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0