created sense approved 三年艾 · sānnián'ài · early preparations — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"
三年艾
sānnián'ài
early preparations
Pre-prepared materials or early planning for a future need. From a passage in the Mencius regarding the need to store mugwort for three years to treat a seven-year illness; if one does not store it in advance, it will never be available when needed.
三 (literal) → 三 · sān · three 年 (literal) → 年 · nián · year 艾 (literal) → 艾 · ài · mugwort
Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition