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宁缺勿滥
nìng​quē​wù​làn

quality over quantity

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
宁缺勿滥 寧缺勿濫 nìng​quē​wù​làn
quality over quantity
better to go without than to accept something of poor quality; would rather have nothing than settle for a shoddy or substandard option

Frequency

Written text
0.586 per million

Cross-References

Variant of

  • 宁缺毋滥 nìng​quē​wú​làn

Sources

Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)