冰冻三尺，非一日之寒

bīng dòng sān chǐ , fēi yī rì zhī hán

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

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Child Words of 冰冻三尺，非一日之寒

• 一 一 yī: one
• 三 三 sān: three
• 之 之 zhī: (possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的[de])
• 冰 冰 bīng: ice
• 冻 冻 dòng: to freeze
• 尺 尺 chě: one of the characters used to represent a musical note in gongche notation, 工尺譜|工尺谱[gōng chě pǔ]
• 尺 尺 chǐ: a Chinese foot
• 日 日 rì: sun
• 非 非 fēi: to not be; not
• 冰冻 冰冻 bīng dòng: to freeze
• 寒 寒 hán: poor