兵马未动，粮草先行
Traditional form:
兵馬未動，糧草先行
Pinyin (reading):
bīngmǎwèidòng,liángcǎoxiānxíng
Definitions:
- before the troops move, fodder and provisions go first (idiom); logistics comes before military maneuvers
- an army marches on its stomach
Characters:
- 兵 - soldier; troops, an army; warlike
- 马 - horse; surname
- 未 - not yet; 8th terrestrial branch
- 动 - to move, to happen; movement, action
- 粮 - food, grain, provisions
- 草 - grass, herbs; straw, thatch
- 先 - first, former, previous
- 行 - to go, to walk, to move; professional
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