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一口吃不成胖子
yī kǒu chī bù chéng pàng zi
What 一口吃不成胖子 means
- lit. you cannot get fat with only one mouthful (proverb)
- fig. any significant achievement requires time, effort and persistence
The characters in 一口吃不成胖子
- 一yīone; single; a (article)
- 口kǒumouth; classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc)…
- 吃chīto eat; to consume; to eat at (a cafeteria etc); to eradicate; to destroy
- 不bùno; not so; (bound form) not; un-
- 成chéngto succeed; to finish; to complete
- 胖pàngfat; plump
- 子zinoun suffix, as in 椅子
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