It's too late to plug the leak once ship is in the middle of the river. (idiom)
trad. 船到江心，補漏遲
Also written 船到江心，補漏遲【chuán dào jiāng xīn , bǔ lòu chí】
Characters in this word
7船
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variant of 船[chuan2]
- Pinyin
- chuán
- Traditional
- 舩
- Strokes
- 11
- Frequency
- 996 of 2500
到
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to reach; to arrive, to leave for; to go to, to (a place); until (a time); up to (a point), (verb complement indicating arriving at a place or reaching a point), considerate; thoughtful; thorough
- Pinyin
- dào
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 48 of 2500
江
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surname Jiang, (bound form) Yangtze River, (bound form) Jiangsu Province (abbr. for 江蘇|江苏[Jiang1 su1])
- Pinyin
- Jiāng
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 19052 of 2500
心
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heart, mind, intention, center, core, CL:顆|颗[ke1],個|个[ge4]
- Pinyin
- xīn
- Strokes
- 4
- Frequency
- 837 of 2500
补
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to repair, to patch, to mend, to make up for, to fill (a vacancy), to supplement
- Pinyin
- bǔ
- Traditional
- 補
- Strokes
- 7
- Frequency
- 10841 of 2500
漏
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to leak, to divulge, to leave out by mistake, waterclock or hourglass (old)
- Pinyin
- lòu
- Strokes
- 14
- Frequency
- 10561 of 2500
迟
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surname Chi
- Pinyin
- Chí
- Traditional
- 遲
- Strokes
- 7
- Frequency
- 4802 of 2500