Entry
百年樹人
Source
CC-CEDict 200217
Characters
百 年 樹 人
Miscellaneous
Traditional
百年樹人
Simplified
百年树人
Pinyin
bai3 nian2 shu4 ren2
English
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
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