行万里路胜读万卷书

Traditional form:

行萬里路勝讀萬捲書

Pinyin (reading):

xíngwànlǐlùshèngdúwànjuǎnshū

Definitions:

• to travel a thousand miles beats reading a thousand books

Characters:

• 行 - to go, to walk, to move; professional
• 万 - ten thousand; innumerable
• 里 - unit of distance equal to 0.5km; village; lane
• 路 - road, path, street; journey
• 胜 - victory; to excel, to truimph
• 读 - to study, to learn; to read, to pronounce
• 万 - ten thousand; innumerable
• 卷 - book, scroll, volume; curled up; to curl, to roll
• 书 - book, letter, document; writing

Traditional characters:

• 行 - to go, to walk, to move; professional
• 萬 - ten thousand; innumerable
• 里 - unit of distance equal to 0.5km; village; lane
• 路 - road, path, street; journey
• 勝 - victory; to excel, to truimph
• 讀 - to study, to learn; to read, to pronounce
• 萬 - ten thousand; innumerable
• 捲 - curl, roll up; curly, rolled up
• 書 - book, letter, document; writing