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Japanese
Etymology
Partial calque of Literary Chinese 千里之行，始於足下 (qiānlǐ zhī xíng, shǐyú zú xià, literally “a road of a thousand li begins with a step”).
The back-formation of this form in pseudo-kanbun would be 千里之道，自一步始.
Proverb
千里の道も一歩より始まる • (senri no michi mo ippo yori hajimaru)
- a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
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