临渴掘井 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 臨渴掘井 línkějuéjǐng ㄌㄧㄣˊ ㄎㄜˇ ㄐㄩㄝˊ ㄐㄧㄥˇ lit. not to dig a well until one is thirsty to be unprepared and seek help at the last minute (idiom) Character by character 临(lín)face 渴(kě)thirsty 掘(jué)dig 井(jǐng)Jing, one of the 28 constellations of Chinese astronomy A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0