万事开头难 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 萬事開頭難 wànshìkāitóunán ㄨㄢˋ ㄕˋ ㄎㄞ ㄊㄡˊ ㄋㄢˊ every beginning is difficult (idiom) getting started is always the hardest part Character by character 万(wàn)surname Wan 事(shì)matter 开(kāi)open 头(tóu)head 难(nán)difficult A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0