未雨绸缪 wèiyǔchóumóu to prepare for a rainy day Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 未雨绸缪 未雨綢繆 wèiyǔchóumóu to prepare for a rainy day To plan ahead or take precautions before trouble occurs; literally "to bind around with silk before it rains," derived from the 诗经 shījīng. Frequency Movie subtitles 0.750 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 1.71 per million Cross-References Referenced by 绸缪 chóumóuAntonym 临渴掘井 línkějuéjǐng Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
未雨绸缪 未雨綢繆 wèiyǔchóumóu to prepare for a rainy day To plan ahead or take precautions before trouble occurs; literally "to bind around with silk before it rains," derived from the 诗经 shījīng. Frequency Movie subtitles 0.750 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 1.71 per million Cross-References Referenced by 绸缪 chóumóuAntonym 临渴掘井 línkějuéjǐng Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
