防患未萌
fáng huàn wèi méng
Pinyin

Definition

防患未萌
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fáng huàn wèi méng
  1. to prevent a disaster before the event (idiom); to nip sth in the bud

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

wèi
  1. 1 not yet
  2. 2 did not
  3. 3 have not
  4. 4 not
  5. 5 8th earthly branch: 1-3 p.m., 6th solar month (7th July-6th August), year of the Sheep
  6. 6 ancient Chinese compass point: 210°
wèi lái
  1. 1 future
  2. 2 tomorrow
  3. 3 classifier: 个 gè
  4. 4 approaching
  5. 5 coming
  6. 6 pending
rén mǎn wéi huàn
  1. 1 packed with people
  2. 2 overcrowded
  3. 3 overpopulation
qián suǒ wèi yǒu
  1. 1 unprecedented
guó fáng
  1. 1 national defense

Idioms (20)

一波未平,一波又起
yī bō wèi píng , yī bō yòu qǐ
  1. 1 before the first wave subsides, a new wave rises (idiom); a new problem arises before the old is solved
  2. 2 many twists and turns to a story
  3. 3 one thing after another
不患寡而患不均
bù huàn guǎ ér huàn bù jūn
  1. 1 do not worry about scarcity, but rather about uneven distribution (idiom, from Analects)
乳臭未干
rǔ xiù wèi gān
  1. 1 smell of mother's milk not yet dried (idiom); immature and inexperienced
  2. 2 still wet behind the ears
以防万一
yǐ fáng wàn yī
  1. 1 to guard against the unexpected (idiom); just in case
  2. 2 prepared for any eventualities
俭以防匮
jiǎn yǐ fáng kuì
  1. 1 frugality in order to prevent destitution (idiom)