冰冻三尺，非一日之寒 in English bing1 dong4 san1 chi3 , fei1 yi1 ri4 zhi1 han2 Meaning

Meanings

• three feet of ice does not form in a single day (idiomatic expression); Rome wasn't built in a day

Pinyin

bing1 dong4 san1 chi3 , fei1 yi1 ri4 zhi1 han2

Literal

Literal explanation, with pronunciation and meaning of each character.

冰bing1ice 冻dong4to freeze 三san1surname San 尺chi3one of the characters used to represent a musical note in gongche notation, 工尺譜|工尺谱[gong1 che3 pu3] ， 非fei1abbr. for 非洲[Fei1 zhou1], Africa 一yi1one 日ri4abbr. for 日本[Ri4 ben3], Japan 之zhi1(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的[de5]) 寒han2cold