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Dictionary - results for 百年

SimplifiedTraditionalPinyinEnglish
bǎinián- hundred years
- century
- lifetime
bǎinián- only met with once every hundred years (drought, flood etc)
bǎinián- a project of vital and lasting importance
bǎiniánhǎo- may you live a long and happy life together (wedding greeting)
bǎiniánshùrén- It takes ten years to nurture a tree, but a hundred years to train a man (idiom)
- fig. a good education program takes a long time to develop
- cf. 十年樹木百年樹人|十年树木百年树人
bǎiniánqiánshìjiā- five hundred years ago we were the same family (idiom) (said of persons with the same surname)
shíniánshù,bǎiniánshùrén- It takes ten years to nurture a tree, but a hundred years to train a man (idiom). A good education program takes a long time to develop.

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