治标不治本 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 治標不治本 zhìbiāobùzhìběn ㄓˋ ㄅㄧㄠ ㄅㄨˋ ㄓˋ ㄅㄣˇ to treat the symptoms but not the root cause Character by character 治(zhì)rule 标(biāo)mark 不(bù)no 治(zhì)rule 本(běn)root A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0