船到江心，补漏迟
Traditional form:
船到江心，補漏遲
Pinyin (reading):
chuándàojiāngxīn,bǔlòuchí
Definitions:
- It's too late to plug the leak once ship is in the middle of the river. (idiom)
Characters:
- 船 - ship, boat, vessel
- 到 - to go to, to arrive
- 江 - large river; the Yangtze; surname
- 心 - heart; mind; soul
- 补 - to fix, to mend, to patch, to restore
- 漏 - to leak, to drip; hour glass; funnel
- 迟 - tardy, slow, late; to delay
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