三天不打，上房揭瓦

three days without a beating, and a child will scale the roof to rip the tiles (idiom) / spare the rod, spoil the child

three / 3

day / sky / heaven

no; not so / (bound form) not; un-

dozen (loanword)

to beat / to strike / to hit / to break / to type / to mix up / to build / to fight / to fetch / to make / to tie up / to issue / to shoot / to calculate / to play (a game) / since / from

used in 上聲|上声[shang3 sheng1]

(bound form) up; upper; above; previous / first (of multiple parts) / to climb; to get onto; to go up / to attend (class or university) / (directional complement) up / (noun suffix) on; above

see 正房[zheng4 fang2]

surname Fang

house / room / CL:間|间[jian1] / branch of an extended family / classifier for family members (or concubines)

surname Jie

to take the lid off / to expose / to unmask

roof tile / abbr. for 瓦特[wa3 te4]