大器晚成
Traditional form:
大器晚成
Pinyin (reading):
dàqìwǎnchéng
Definitions:
- lit. it takes a long time to make a big pot (idiom); fig. a great talent matures slowly
- in the fullness of time a major figure will develop into a pillar of the state
- Rome wasn't built in a day
Characters:
- 大 - big, great, vast, high, deep
- 器 - device, instrument, tool; receptacle, vessel
- 晚 - night, evening; late
- 成 - to accomplish; to become; to complete, to finish; to succeed
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