百里を行く者は九十を半ばとす
ひゃくりをゆくものはくじゅうをなかばとす
Meanings
- Expression don't count your chickens before they're hatched; there's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip (literally: consider a journey of 100 ri to be halfway completed at 90)
Kanji
- 百 hundred. Read as ヒャク.
- 里 hamlet
- 行 go. Read as ゆく.
- 者 person. Read as もの.
- 九 nine
- 十 ten. Read as ジュウ.
- 半 half. Read as なかば.