宁缺毋滥 nìngquēwúlàn better to have nothing than something shoddy Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 宁缺毋滥 寧缺毋濫 nìngquēwúlàn better to have nothing than something shoddy rather go without than accept something of poor quality; would prefer to have a vacancy or shortage than to fill it with something or someone substandard Frequency Written text 0.644 per million Cross-References Variant of 宁缺勿滥 nìngquēwùlàn Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
宁缺毋滥 寧缺毋濫 nìngquēwúlàn better to have nothing than something shoddy rather go without than accept something of poor quality; would prefer to have a vacancy or shortage than to fill it with something or someone substandard Frequency Written text 0.644 per million Cross-References Variant of 宁缺勿滥 nìngquēwùlàn Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
