Our goal is to provide you with free Chinese learning tools. This series highlights idioms and proverbs, full of meaning and adaptable to many contexts. The featured idiom is 「一勞久逸」, with details below.
Our focus this time is on the idiom 「一勞久逸」. You’ll find its definition and examples below.
Work hard once and get it done well, so you don’t have to work hard again in the future. Same as “once and for all”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yī láo jiǔ yì
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yat1 lou4 gau2 yat6
The collection of Chinese idioms is enormous, with each one holding its own meaning and purpose. We hope these resources can assist you in better understanding and learning Chinese.
