Save for a rainy day.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
未雨绸缪
lit. before it rains, bind around with silk (idiom, from Book of Songs 诗经); fig. to plan ahead
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
lit. before it rains, bind around with silk (idiom, from Book of Songs 诗经); fig. to plan ahead
02
to prepare for a rainy day
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 未雨绸缪 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 未雨绸缪 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
You had better keep your money for a rainy day.
No published English translation for this sentence.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 未雨绸缪.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 未雨绸缪.
Directly before
- 应该未雨绸缪1
- 最好未雨绸缪1
Directly after
- No repeated neighbour in the corpus.
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 未雨绸缪
What does 未雨绸缪 mean in Chinese?
未雨绸缪 (wèiyǔchóumóu) means lit. before it rains, bind around with silk (idiom, from Book of Songs 诗经); fig. to plan ahead.
How do you pronounce 未雨绸缪?
未雨绸缪 is pronounced wèiyǔchóumóu.
Is 未雨绸缪 an HSK word?
未雨绸缪 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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