防微杜漸 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 防微杜渐 fángwēidùjiàn ㄈㄤˊ ㄨㄟ ㄉㄨˋ ㄐㄧㄢˋ to nip in the bud (idiom) Character by character 防(fáng)protect 微(wēi)surname Wei 杜(dù)surname Du 漸(jiàn)gradual A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0