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亡羊补牢
wáng​yáng​bǔ​láo HSK7

remedy

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
亡羊补牢 (亡羊補牢) wáng​yáng​bǔ​láo
remedy idiom
To take corrective action after a loss or mistake has occurred to prevent further damage; better late than never.

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.800 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.775 per million

Details

HSK 3.0
Level 7

Sources

Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)