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三天不打，上房揭瓦

sān tiān bù dǎ , shàng fáng jiē wǎ

9-character word

What 三天不打，上房揭瓦 means

1. three days without a beating, and a child will scale the roof to rip the tiles (idiom)
2. spare the rod, spoil the child

The characters in 三天不打，上房揭瓦

• 三sānthree; 3
• 天tiānday; sky; heaven
• 不bùno; not so; (bound form) not; un-
• 打dǎa semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects…
• 上shàng(bound form) up; upper; above; previous; first (of multiple parts); to climb…
• 房fánghouse; room; branch of an extended family
• 揭jiēto take the lid off; to expose; to unmask
• 瓦wǎroof tile; abbr. for 瓦特