龟兔赛跑

龜兔賽跑
guītùsàipǎo
idiom

Meanings

  1. 1 the tortoise and the hare
  2. 2 slow and steady wins the race

Examples

Lǎoshī jiǎngle guītùsàipǎo de gùshi, jiào wǒmen yào jiānchí.
The teacher told the tortoise-and-hare story to teach us perseverance.
Xuéxí jiù xiàng guītùsàipǎo, bùnéng jiāo'ào.
Studying is like the tortoise and the hare — you can't get cocky.

Tips

culture
From Aesop's Fables (《寓言》), not Chinese tradition, but fully absorbed into Chinese children's culture and often quoted as if it were a chengyu. The moral is usually given as (an overconfident army must lose).

Stroke Order

guī
sài
pǎo