未雨绸缪(wèi yǔ chóu móu): lit. before it rains, bind around with silk…
4 charactersTrad. 未雨綢繆
lit. before it rains, bind around with silk…
Character breakdown
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Word information
- Pinyin
- wèi yǔ chóu móu
- Meaning
- lit. before it rains, bind around with silk (idiom, from Book of Songs 詩經|诗经); fig. to plan ahead
- HSK level
- —
- Characters
- 4
- Traditional
- 未雨綢繆
Related words
Common words sharing a character with 未雨绸缪 — tap one to open its word page.
wèi未lái来
HSK 4future
qián前suǒ所wèi未yǒu有
HSK 7-9(idiom) unprecedented
shàng尚wèi未
HSK 7-9not yet; still not
cóng从wèi未
HSK 7-9never
wèi未miǎn免
HSK 7-9unavoidably
bìng并wèi未
(used to stress that sth did not turn out as one might have expected) did not actually …
rǔ乳xiù臭wèi未gān干
lit. smell of breast milk not yet dried (idiom)
gèn亘gǔ古wèi未yǒu有
unprecedented
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