未然 wèirán

wèirán adjective in advance; before it happens (cf preventative measures); forestalling
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (CC-CEDICT '未然')

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防患未然

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Truncated for common words

  • Scroll 1 Quotations from Abbot Mi An 密菴和尚語錄 — count: 10
  • Scroll 1 Hong Zhi Chan Shi Guang Lu 宏智禪師廣錄 — count: 10
  • Scroll 1 Quotations from Abbot Ru Jing 如淨和尚語錄 — count: 9
  • Scroll 4 Hong Zhi Chan Shi Guang Lu 宏智禪師廣錄 — count: 6
  • Scroll 32 Supplement to Records of the Transmission of the Lamp 續傳燈錄 — count: 6
  • Scroll 2 Quotations from Abbot Ru Jing 如淨和尚語錄 — count: 6
  • Scroll 23 Supplement to Records of the Transmission of the Lamp 續傳燈錄 — count: 6
  • Scroll 1 Wumen's Gate 無門關 — count: 6 , has English translation
  • Scroll 4 Quotations from Chan Master Dahui Pujue 大慧普覺禪師語錄 — count: 5
  • Scroll 12 Supplement to Records of the Transmission of the Lamp 續傳燈錄 — count: 5

Collocations

  • 众生未然 (眾生未然) 初見世眾生未然之事 — Sutra of the Collection of the Six Perfections (Liu Du Ji Jing) 六度集經, Scroll 8 — count: 15
  • 未然三界 (未然三界) 眾生未然三界經一卷 — Records of the Three Treasures Throughout the Successive Dynasties 歷代三寶紀, Scroll 6 — count: 13
  • 恐未然 (恐未然) 此猶恐未然 — Commentary on the Fanwang Jing Bodhisattva Precepts 梵網經菩薩戒本疏, Scroll 4 — count: 12
  • 虑未然 (慮未然) 則不防慮未然之事 — Sutra on the Wise and Foolish (Damamūka) 賢愚經, Scroll 6 — count: 6
  • 言未然 (言未然) 言未然之事 — Biographies of Eminent Monks 高僧傳, Scroll 10 — count: 6
  • 晓未然 (曉未然) 自餘小聖雖曉未然 — Fo Zu Lidai Tong Zai 佛祖歷代通載, Scroll 9 — count: 5
  • 覩未然 (覩未然) 却覩未然 — Sukhāvatīvyūhasūtra (Wuliang Qingjing Pingdeng Jue Jing) 無量清淨平等覺經, Scroll 3 — count: 5
  • 防未然 (防未然) 恒自談說豫防未然 — Chu Yao Jing (Dharmapada) 出曜經, Scroll 4 — count: 4
  • 未然事 (未然事) 問未然事耶 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 5 — count: 4
  • 未然祸福 (未然禍福) 口中好言未然禍福 — Great Might Arrived Bodhisattva’s Thinking-of-Buddhas as the Perfect Passage (Da Fo Ding Rulai Mi Yin Xiu Zheng Liaoyi Zhu Pusa Wan Xing Shou Leng Yan Jing) 大佛頂如來密因修證了義諸菩薩萬行首楞嚴經, Scroll 9 — count: 3