蛇咬一口,入骨三分 蛇咬一口,入骨三分 蛇咬一口,入骨三分

a snake's bite goes three tenths of an inch into the bone

Saying俗语俗語

Proverb谚语諺語 · Rarely used now

Meaning
Being slandered by a bad person is very hard to shake off.
Simplified
蛇咬一口,入骨三分
Pinyin
shé yǎo yìkǒu, rùgǔ sānfēn
Bopomofo
ㄕㄜˊ ㄧㄠˇ ㄧˋ ㄎㄡˇ,ㄖㄨˋ ㄍㄨˇ ㄙㄢ ㄈㄣ

Written with HSK 5 vocabulary, at CEFR level B2.

Words in this sentence

Where this sentence is used

All Chinese example sentences