冰
冻
三
尺
，
非
一
日
之
寒
b
ī
n
g
b
ī
n
g
d
ò
n
g
d
ò
n
g
s
ā
n
s
ā
n
c
h
ǐ
c
h
ǐ
,
,
f
ē
i
f
ē
i
y
í
y
ī
r
ì
r
ì
z
h
ī
z
h
ī
h
á
n
h
á
n
Definitions
1. three feet of ice does not form in a single day (idiom)
2. Rome wasn't built in a day
Components
冰冻
bīng dòng
–
to freeze
三
Sān
–
surname San
尺
chǐ
–
a Chinese foot
非
Fēi
–
PN:abbr. for 非洲[Fei1 zhou1], Africa
一日
yī rì
–
one day
之
zhī
–
(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的[de5])
寒
hán
–
cold