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百ひゃく里りを行ゆくものは九く十じゅうを半なかばとす
Meanings
Expression
Proverb
1. don't count your chickens before they're hatched; there's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip; (lit.) consider a journey of 100 ri to be halfway completed at 90
Alt. forms
百ひゃく里りを行ゆく者ものは九く十じゅうを半なかばとす
百ひゃく里りを行ゆくものは九く十じゅうを半なかばとす
Kanji used
百
hundred
里
home village
行
go
九
nine
十
ten
半
half
Composed of
hundred; 100
Japanese league; ri; neighbourhood (under the ritsuryō system; orig. of 50 homes); unit of area (approx. 654 m by 654 m)
to go; to move (towards); to move through; to travel across; to go (well, badly, etc.); to proceed; to do (in a particular way)
person
ninety; 90
middle; halfway; half (of); one half; half (e.g. done, jokingly); partly