千里の行も足下に始まる
Japanese
[edit]| Kanji in this term | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 千 | 里 | 行 | 足 | 下 | 始 |
| せん Grade: 1 |
り Grade: 2 |
こう Grade: 2 |
そく > そっ Grade: 1 |
か Grade: 1 |
はじ Grade: 3 |
| on'yomi | on'yomi | on'yomi | kun'yomi | ||
Etymology
[edit]Calque of Literary Chinese 千里之行，始於足下 (qiānlǐ zhī xíng, shǐyú zú xià, literally “a road of a thousand li begins with a step”).
Proverb
[edit]千里の行も足下に始まる • (senri no kō mo sokka ni hajimaru)
Synonyms
[edit]- 千里の道も一歩より始まる (senri no michi mo ippo yori hajimaru)
- 千里の道も一歩から (senri no michi mo ippo kara)
Categories:
- Japanese terms spelled with 千 read as せん
- Japanese terms spelled with 里 read as り
- Japanese terms spelled with 行 read as こう
- Japanese terms spelled with 足 read as そく
- Japanese terms spelled with 下 read as か
- Japanese terms spelled with 始 read as はじ
- Japanese terms calqued from Literary Chinese
- Japanese terms derived from Literary Chinese
- Japanese lemmas
- Japanese proverbs
- Japanese terms with multiple readings
- Japanese terms spelled with first grade kanji
- Japanese terms spelled with second grade kanji
- Japanese terms spelled with third grade kanji
- Japanese terms with 6 kanji