lit. carefully setting an auspicious date does not beat seizing an opportunity (idiom); fig. seize the occasion
trad. 擇日不如撞日
Also written 擇日不如撞日【zé rì bù rú zhuàng rì】
Characters in this word
5择
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to select, to choose, to pick over, to pick out, to differentiate, to eliminate, also pr. [zhai2]
- Pinyin
- zé
- Traditional
- 擇
- Strokes
- 8
日
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(bound form) sun, day, day of the month, (bound form) Japan (abbr. for 日本[Ri4 ben3]), (vulgar) to fuck; to have sex with
- Pinyin
- rì
- Strokes
- 4
- Frequency
- 723 of 2500
不
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no; not so, (bound form) not; un-
- Pinyin
- bù
- Strokes
- 4
- Frequency
- 9 of 2500
如
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as, as if, such as
- Pinyin
- rú
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 1252 of 2500
撞
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to knock against, to bump into, to run into, to meet by accident
- Pinyin
- zhuàng
- Strokes
- 15
- Frequency
- 1525 of 2500