远亲不如近邻 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 遠親不如近鄰 yuǎnqīnbùrújìnlín ㄩㄢˇ ㄑㄧㄣ ㄅㄨˋ ㄖㄨˊ ㄐㄧㄣˋ ㄌㄧㄣˊ A relative afar is less use than a close neighbor (idiom). Take whatever help is on hand, even from strangers. Character by character 远(yuǎn)far 亲(qīn)parent 不(bù)no 如(rú)as 近(jìn)near 邻(lín)neighbor A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0