Read Edit View history 远水不解近渴 yuǎnshuǐbùjiějìnkě a slow remedy cannot help an urgent need Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 远水不解近渴 遠水不解近渴 yuǎnshuǐbùjiějìnkě a slow remedy cannot help an urgent need Literally "distant water does not cure present thirst"; used to describe a solution that is too slow or too far away to be of any help for an immediate problem. Frequency Written text 0.047 per million Cross-References Variant of 远水解不了近渴 yuǎnshuǐjiěbùliǎojìnkěSynonym 远水不救近火 yuǎnshuǐbùjiùjìnhuǒ Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
远水不解近渴 遠水不解近渴 yuǎnshuǐbùjiějìnkě a slow remedy cannot help an urgent need Literally "distant water does not cure present thirst"; used to describe a solution that is too slow or too far away to be of any help for an immediate problem. Frequency Written text 0.047 per million Cross-References Variant of 远水解不了近渴 yuǎnshuǐjiěbùliǎojìnkěSynonym 远水不救近火 yuǎnshuǐbùjiùjìnhuǒ Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)