防患未然 Save Sign in to save words fánghuànwèirán ㄈㄤˊ ㄏㄨㄢˋ ㄨㄟˋ ㄖㄢˊ to prevent troubles before the event (idiom) to forestall to nip sth in the bud Character by character 防(fáng)protect 患(huàn)suffer 未(wèi)not yet 然(rán)correct A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0