Constant dripping wears away a stone.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
滴水穿石
dripping water penetrates the stone (idiom); constant perseverance yields success
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
dripping water penetrates the stone (idiom); constant perseverance yields success
02
You can achieve your aim if you try hard without giving up
03
Persistent effort overcomes any difficulty
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 滴水穿石 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 滴水穿石 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
A water drop hollows a stone not by force but by falling often.
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Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 滴水穿石
What does 滴水穿石 mean in Chinese?
滴水穿石 (dīshuǐchuānshí) means dripping water penetrates the stone (idiom); constant perseverance yields success.
How do you pronounce 滴水穿石?
滴水穿石 is pronounced dīshuǐchuānshí.
Is 滴水穿石 an HSK word?
滴水穿石 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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