治丝益棼 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 治絲益棼 zhìsīyìfén ㄓˋ ㄙ ㄧˋ ㄈㄣˊ lit. try to straighten out silk threads only to tangle them further (idiom) fig. to try to help but end up making things worse Character by character 治(zhì)rule 丝(sī)silk 益(yì)surname Yi 棼(fén)beams in roof A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0