十年树木,百年树人

It takes ten years to nurture a tree, but a hundred years to train a man (idiom). A good education program takes a long time to develop.

Characters and words in 十年树木,百年树人

ten / 10

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a holy cross. Sherlock Holmes (sh-) is investigating a very strange thing he found in the kitchen of the space station (-2): A big pyramid made of ten (十) crosses (十), which are in turn made out of flutes (一) and dinosaur bones (丨).
surname Nian
year / CL:個|个[ge4]

= + + : Nefertiti (ni) is having lunch (午) in the anthill's kitchen (an2). Unfortunately they didn't have any cutlery left so she has to use a dinosaur bone (丨) and a flute (一) instead of fork and knife. It will take her a whole year (年) to finish her lunch this way.
grain / harvest (old) / variant of 年[nian2]
tree / CL:棵[ke1] / to cultivate / to set up

= + : Sheldon Shrimp cultivates a Christmas tree in the space station's bathroom. He is very happy that he found the right tree, just the one he imagined, and—in his mind—marks of the tree he imagined with a big green check mark.
surname Mu
tree / wood / coffin / wooden / simple / numb / one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音[ba1 yin1]

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a Christmas tree. Malte Monkey is putting up a Christmas tree (木) in the bathroom of the space station (Ø4). He's using a cross (十) as a base to put the tree on, and decorates the tree with eight-balls (八).
(bound form) tree / (bound form) wood / unresponsive; numb; wooden
surname Bai

= + : Beelzebub enjoys preparing to allure a few mortals. Sitting on the throne in the airplane, he's waving a flute as a magic wand and enchanting one hundred white flags to look like one hundred one hundred 元 bills.
hundred / numerous / all kinds of

= + : Beelzebub enjoys preparing to allure a few mortals. Sitting on the throne in the airplane, he's waving a flute as a magic wand and enchanting one hundred white flags to look like one hundred one hundred 元 bills.
hundred years / century / lifetime
It takes ten years to nurture a tree, but a hundred years to train a man (idiom) / fig. a good education program takes a long time to develop / cf. 十年樹木,百年樹人|十年树木,百年树人
person; people / CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4]

= 丿 + : Mnemonic symbol: Neanderthal Man (人). Robinson Crusoe (r-) is looking for snacks in the encampment's kitchen (-en2) when he suddenly spots Neanderthal Man (人). Neanderthal Man offers him a banana (丿), but Robinson Crusoe doesn't trust the present and pokes it with a finger (㇏).

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