防微杜渐 fángwēidùjiàn to nip in the bud Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 防微杜渐 防微杜漸 fángwēidùjiàn to nip in the bud to prevent a problem by stopping it at the earliest sign; to check an erroneous or harmful trend before it develops or spreads Frequency Movie subtitles 0.090 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.375 per million Cross-References Variant of 杜渐防微 dùjiànfángwēi Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
防微杜渐 防微杜漸 fángwēidùjiàn to nip in the bud to prevent a problem by stopping it at the earliest sign; to check an erroneous or harmful trend before it develops or spreads Frequency Movie subtitles 0.090 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.375 per million Cross-References Variant of 杜渐防微 dùjiànfángwēi Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
