字 Chinese Character Wiki Wiki
Log in
  • Home
  • Search
  • Lists
  • Recent Changes
  • My Edits
  • Character Builder
Preferences
Theme
Characters
Phonetic
  • Dong Chinese
Read Edit View history
宁缺勿滥
Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
宁缺毋滥 (寧缺毋濫) nìng​quē​wú​làn
quality over quantity expression
better to have nothing than a substandard choice; would prefer to go without than accept a shoddy option

Frequency

Written text
0.586 per million

Sources

Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)
CC BY-SA 4.0 Data licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0