「十年樹木，百年樹人」
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| Pronunciation： | sap6 nin4 syu6 muk6 baak3 nin4 syu6 jan4 |
| Individual Character Meaning： |
十 ten 年 year 樹 tree; place; to plant 木 wood; tree 百 hundred; hundreds digit; hundreds place 年 year 樹 tree; place; to plant 人 human; human being; person; people; personality; everybody; (some) people; others; somebody; body of a person |
| Part of Speech： | expression |
| Explanation： |
talent is hard to come by and requires effort over a long period of time; literally: it takes a decade to grow a tree, but a century to train a man
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