只要功夫深，铁杵磨成针
Definitions
- 1. If you work at it hard enough, you can grind an iron bar into a needle.
- 2. cf idiom 磨杵成針|磨杵成针, to grind an iron bar down to a fine needle (idiom); fig. to persevere in a difficult task
- 3. to study diligently
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Child Words of 只要功夫深，铁杵磨成针
meritorious deed or service
skill
only
if only
to succeed
deep (lit. and fig.)
to rub
grindstone
grain that has begun to ripen
(bound form) to demand; to coerce
to want; to need; to ask for
needle
iron (metal)
husband
(classical) this, that
pestle