独木不成林
dú​mù​bù​chéng​lín

one person alone cannot achieve much

  • created reference approved 独木不成林/獨木不成林 → 单丝不成线/單絲不成線 (see) — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    独木不成林 / 獨木不成林 dú​mù​bù​chéng​lín

    单丝不成线 / 單絲不成線 dān​sī​bù​chéng​xiàn

    see

    Changed: source (simp), source (trad), source pinyin, target (simp), target (trad), target pinyin, type

    created reference

  • created sense approved 独木不成林/獨木不成林 · dú​mù​bù​chéng​lín · one person alone cannot achieve much — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    独木不成林 / 獨木不成林

    dú​mù​bù​chéng​lín

    one person alone cannot achieve much

    literally 'a single tree does not make a forest'; used to mean that an individual's strength is limited and cooperation is needed to achieve great things

    独 (literal) → 独/獨 · dú · single 木 (literal) → 木 · mù · tree 不成 (literal) → 不成 · bù​chéng · to fail 林 (literal) → 林 · lín · forest

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense