Entry
  1. (lit.) read ten thousand books and travel ten thousand miles (idiom); (fig.) acquire knowledge from study and wisdom from practical experience

    trad. 讀萬卷書,行萬里路

Also written 讀萬卷書,行萬里路【dú wàn juàn shū , xíng wàn lǐ lù】

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7
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to roll up, (fig.) to sweep up; to engulf; to drag into (a situation), (slang) to compete to an unhealthy degree; hypercompetitive, a roll, classifier for small rolled-up things (wad of paper money, movie reel etc)

Pinyin
juǎn
Strokes
8
Frequency
3774 of 2500
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(bound form) row; line, (bound form) line of business; trade; profession, (bound form) commercial firm, (bound form) to rank (first, second etc) among one's siblings (by age), (in data tables) row; (Tw) column, classifier for rows or lines

Pinyin
háng
Strokes
6
Frequency
379 of 2500