不到長城非好漢 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 不到长城非好汉 bùdàochángchéngfēihǎohàn ㄅㄨˋ ㄉㄠˋ ㄔㄤˊ ㄔㄥˊ ㄈㄟ ㄏㄠˇ ㄏㄢˋ lit. until you reach the Great Wall, you're not a proper person fig. to get over difficulties before reaching the goal Character by character 不(bù)no 到(dào)reach 長(cháng)long 城(chéng)city walls 非(fēi)not be 好(hǎo)good 漢(hàn)Han ethnic group A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0