Read Edit View history 近水楼台先得月 jìnshuǐlóutáixiāndéyuè preferential access Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 近水楼台先得月 (近水樓臺先得月) jìnshuǐlóutáixiāndéyuè preferential access idiom to benefit from intimacy with an influential person or being in a favorable position to obtain something first spatial advantage idiom the pavilion closest to the water enjoys moonlight first; gaining an advantage due to physical proximity to a source Frequency Movie subtitles 0.030 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.485 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
近水楼台先得月 (近水樓臺先得月) jìnshuǐlóutáixiāndéyuè preferential access idiom to benefit from intimacy with an influential person or being in a favorable position to obtain something first spatial advantage idiom the pavilion closest to the water enjoys moonlight first; gaining an advantage due to physical proximity to a source Frequency Movie subtitles 0.030 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.485 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)