万事起头难

Traditional form:

萬事起頭難

Pinyin (reading):

wànshìqǐtóunán

Definitions:

• the first step is the hardest (idiom)

Characters:

• 万 - ten thousand; innumerable
• 事 - affair, matter, business; to serve; accident, incident
• 起 - to begin, to initiate; to rise, to stand up
• 头 - head; chief, boss; first, top
• 难 - hard, difficult, arduous; unable

Traditional characters:

• 萬 - ten thousand; innumerable
• 事 - affair, matter, business; to serve; accident, incident
• 起 - to begin, to initiate; to rise, to stand up
• 頭 - head; chief, boss; first, top
• 難 - hard, difficult, arduous; unable