有的放矢 Save Sign in to save words On the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list, at CEFR level C2. yǒudìfàngshǐ ㄧㄡˇ ㄉㄧˋ ㄈㄤˋ ㄕˇ lit. to have a target in mind when shooting one's arrows (idiom) fig. to have a clear objective Character by character 有(yǒu)have 的(dì)target 放(fàng)put 矢(shǐ)arrow A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0 国际中文教育中文水平等级标准, 中华人民共和国教育部, MIT