一步一個腳印兒 (jat1 bou6 jat1 go3 goek3 jan3 ji4) — every step leaves its print (work steadily and make solid progress) in Cantonese

one; a; an; the

a Chinese family name

unit; piece (see Note)

footnote; rhyme

imprint; mark

final particle / suffix, placed after many commonly used nouns to avoid employing one-syllable terms in speech (very common in the Beijing dialect 北京話, see: 兒化, 兒化韻)