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笨鸟先飞
bèn niǎo xiān fēi
What 笨鸟先飞 means
- lit. the clumsy bird flies early (idiom); fig. to work hard to compensate for one's limited abilities
The characters in 笨鸟先飞
- 笨bènstupid; foolish; silly
- 鸟niǎobird; "bird" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 196)…
- 先xiānbeforehand; first; earlier; at first; originally; for the time being; for now
- 飞fēito fly
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