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冰冻三尺，非一日之寒

bīng dòng sān chǐ , fēi yī rì zhī hán

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Definitions

  1. 1. three feet of ice does not form in a single day (idiom); Rome wasn't built in a day

Child Words of 冰冻三尺，非一日之寒

寒
hán

poor

冰冻
bīng dòng

to freeze

尺
chě

one of the characters used to represent a musical note in gongche notation, 工尺譜|工尺谱[gōng chě pǔ]

一
yī

one

日
rì

sun

三
sān

three

尺
chǐ

a Chinese foot

冻
dòng

to freeze

非
fēi

to not be; not

冰
bīng

ice

之
zhī

(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的[de])