a thousand-mile journey; a long-term endeavor
千 · 3 strokes
Phonosemantic compound. 一 represents the meaning and 亻 represents the sound.
里 · 7 strokes
A village (里) is an area of land (土) where people have fields (田). In simplified Chinese 里 is also used to mean "inside", while in traditional Chinese this meaning is written with a separate character…
之 · 3 strokes
Pictograph of a foot (止) going out of an area. The current meaning is a phonetic loan.
行 · 6 strokes
Depicts a street intersection.
千里之行，始于足下。
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.