人无远虑，必有近忧 (人無遠慮，必有近憂)
rén wú yuǎn lu:4 , bì yǒu jìn yōu
Pinyin

Definition

人无远虑，必有近忧 (人無遠慮，必有近憂)
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rén wú yuǎn lu:4 , bì yǒu jìn yōu
  1. He who gives no thought to far-flung problems soon finds suffering nearby (idiom, from Analects).
  2. Smug concentration on the here and now will lead to future sorrow.

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

人
rén
  1. 1 man
  2. 2 person
  3. 3 people
  4. 4 classifier: 个 gè
  5. 5 classifier: 位 wèi
人生
rén shēng
  1. 1 life (one's time on earth)
别人
bié ren
  1. 1 other people
  2. 2 others
  3. 3 other person
女人
nǚ rén
  1. 1 woman
有
yǒu
  1. 1 to have
  2. 2 there is
  3. 3 there are
  4. 4 to exist
  5. 5 to be

Idioms (20)

一不做，二不休
yī bù zuò , èr bù xiū
  1. 1 don't do it, or don't rest (idiom); either give up, or go through to the end
  2. 2 Since we started, we must carry it through whatever happens.
  3. 3 in for a penny, in for a pound
一人得道，鸡犬升天
yī rén dé dào , jī quǎn shēng tiān
  1. 1 lit. when a man achieves the Dao, his poultry and dogs rise to Heaven (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to ride on sb else's success
  3. 3 Once one man gets a government position, all his cronies get in too
  4. 4 Once sb has cracked the problem, every Tom, Dick and Harry can do it
一个天南，一个地北
yī ge tiān nán , yī ge dì běi
  1. 1 to live miles apart (idiom)
一传十，十传百
yī chuán shí , shí chuán bǎi
  1. 1 news pass quickly from mouth to mouth (idiom)
  2. 2 an infectious disease spreads quickly (old meaning)
一则以喜，一则以忧
yī zé yǐ xǐ , yī zé yǐ yōu
  1. 1 happy on the one hand, but worried on the other (idiom)

Sample Sentences

哎，人无远虑，必有近忧啊。
ai ，rénwúyuǎnlǜ, bìyǒujìnyōu a 。
Agh, if you don't think ahead a bit, it will come back to haunt you.
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