Our free Chinese learning series introduces idioms and proverbs. These timeless phrases hold valuable meanings and are worth studying. Today’s idiom is 「功一美二」, detailed below.
This introduction highlights the idiom 「功一美二」, with its meaning and examples explained below.
Merit: achievement. Do one thing and gain the reputation of two things.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
gōng yī měi èr
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
gung1 yat1 mei5 yi6
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