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Open the tool →迭床架屋 (dié chuáng jià wū) is a Chinese idiom (chengyu) meaning “to be repetitive and redundant”.
迭床架屋 is pronounced dié chuáng jià wū in Mandarin Chinese.
Literally, 迭床架屋 means “Piling beds on top of beds and building houses on top of houses”. It is used to mean “to be repetitive and redundant”.
床上搁床,屋上架屋。比喻重复、累赘。