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百尺竿头，更进一步
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Definitions
- 1. lit. after climbing a hundred feet up a pole, one should go even further (idiom)
- 2. fig. even if one has achieved a measure of success, one should strive to do even better
Child Words of 百尺竿头，更进一步
to change or replace
pole
to go forward
to be at the highest level of enlightenment (Buddhist expression)
hundred
one of the characters used to represent a musical note in gongche notation, 工尺譜|工尺谱[gōng chě pǔ]
one
bamboo pole's uppermost tip
to go a step further
head
a step
a Chinese foot
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