We strive to offer you free Chinese learning resources. This series focuses on idioms and proverbs, which are rich in meaning and can be used in various situations. Today’s idiom is 「事倍功半」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.
This feature highlights the idiom 「事倍功半」, with its meaning and examples shown below.
It means that the work is very laborious but the results are very small.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
shì bèi gōng bàn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
si6 pui5 gung1 bun3
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