笨鸟先飞 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 笨鳥先飛 bènniǎoxiānfēi ㄅㄣˋ ㄋㄧㄠˇ ㄒㄧㄢ ㄈㄟ lit. the clumsy bird flies early (idiom) fig. to work hard to compensate for one's limited abilities Character by character 笨(bèn)stupid 鸟(niǎo)bird 先(xiān)beforehand 飞(fēi)fly A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0