隔靴搔癢 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 隔靴搔痒 géxuēsāoyǎng ㄍㄜˊ ㄒㄩㄝ ㄙㄠ ㄧㄤˇ lit. to scratch the outside of the boot (idiom) fig. beside the point ineffectual Character by character 隔(gé)separate 靴(xuē)boots 搔(sāo)scratch 癢(yǎng)itch A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0