十年树木 shíniánshùmù it takes ten years to grow a tree Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 十年树木 十年樹木 shíniánshùmù it takes ten years to grow a tree it takes a long time to cultivate trees; often used as the first half of a proverb to contrast the time needed for physical growth with the much longer time needed for human education Frequency Written text 0.034 per million Cross-References Synonym 百年树人 bǎiniánshùrén Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
十年树木 十年樹木 shíniánshùmù it takes ten years to grow a tree it takes a long time to cultivate trees; often used as the first half of a proverb to contrast the time needed for physical growth with the much longer time needed for human education Frequency Written text 0.034 per million Cross-References Synonym 百年树人 bǎiniánshùrén Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
