绳锯木断 shéngjùmùduàn perseverance will prevail Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 绳锯木断 繩鋸木斷 shéngjùmùduàn perseverance will prevail Literally "a rope can saw through wood"; a metaphor meaning that even small efforts, if maintained with persistence and constancy, can accomplish great tasks; often used alongside 水滴石穿 shuǐdīshíchuān Frequency Written text 0.028 per million Cross-References Synonym 水滴石穿 shuǐdīshíchuān Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
绳锯木断 繩鋸木斷 shéngjùmùduàn perseverance will prevail Literally "a rope can saw through wood"; a metaphor meaning that even small efforts, if maintained with persistence and constancy, can accomplish great tasks; often used alongside 水滴石穿 shuǐdīshíchuān Frequency Written text 0.028 per million Cross-References Synonym 水滴石穿 shuǐdīshíchuān Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
