拔苗助長 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 拔苗助长 bámiáozhùzhǎng ㄅㄚˊ ㄇㄧㄠˊ ㄓㄨˋ ㄓㄤˇ to spoil things through excessive enthusiasm (idiom) Character by character 拔(bá)pull up 苗(miáo)surname Miao 助(zhù)help 長(zhǎng)grow A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0