万事开头难
Traditional form:
萬事開頭難
Pinyin (reading):
wànshìkāitóunán
Definitions:
- every beginning is difficult (idiom)
- getting started is always the hardest part
Characters:
- 万 - ten thousand; innumerable
- 事 - affair, matter, business; to serve; accident, incident
- 开 - to open; to start, to initiate, to begin
- 头 - head; chief, boss; first, top
- 难 - hard, difficult, arduous; unable
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