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三天打鱼，两天晒网

sān tiān dǎ yú , liǎng tiān shài wǎng

9-character word Traditional 三天打魚，兩天曬網

What 三天打鱼，两天晒网 means

1. lit. to fish for three days and sun-dry the nets for two days (proverb)
2. fig. not to persevere in doing sth
3. to do sth by fits and starts

The characters in 三天打鱼，两天晒网

• 三sānthree; 3
• 天tiānday; sky; heaven
• 打dǎa semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects…
• 鱼yúfish; used in the names of various aquatic animals that are not fish (including abalone 鲍鱼
• 两liǎngtwo; both; some
• 天tiānday; sky; heaven
• 晒shài(of the sun) to shine on; to bask in (the sunshine)…
• 网wǎngnet; web; network; to net; to catch with a net