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十劃都未有一撇
  sap6 waak6 dou1 mei6 jau5 jat1 pit3   jyutping
  shi2 hua4 dou1 wei4 you3 yi4 pie3   pinyin
There is not the slightest sign of anything happening yet
[lit] No left-falling stroke is in sight even after ten strokes of a character have been written

Idiom

Level: 3
This term is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.
十劃都未有一撇 / 十划都未有一撇

This word has been viewed 6572 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by Michael 忠仔 on 11th Sep 2009 00:28 and last edited on 21st May 2010 10:40
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Characters in this word:

 sap6  -  ten
 waak6  -  divide; plan
 dou1  -  all; both; even; already; also; capital
 mei6  -  not yet, not
 jau5 jau6  -  have; there is
 jat1  -  one; a; same; whole; each; once; a little
 pit3  -  cast aside; disregard

Showing 1 example containing 十劃都未有一撇
detail 呢個復活節係咪北海道滑雪,重係十劃都未有一撇
It's still far too early to tell if we are going skiing in Hokkaido this Easter.
[In this sentence, the third character 都 in the idiom 十劃都未有一撇 could be moved three spaces up so that the latter half of the sentence would become 都重係十劃未有一撇. The meaning would remain the same. ]
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