临渴穿井 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 臨渴穿井 línkěchuānjǐng ㄌㄧㄣˊ ㄎㄜˇ ㄔㄨㄢ ㄐㄧㄥˇ lit. face thirst and dig a well (idiom) fig. not to make adequate provision to act when it is too late Character by character 临(lín)face 渴(kě)thirsty 穿(chuān)bore through 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