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Chinese language progresses from characters to idioms. This free guide explains the advanced idiom 「因小失大」 for better learning.

This time, we present the Chinese idiom 「因小失大」, with its definition and usage detailed below.

For the sake of small benefits, great losses are caused.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yīn xiǎo shī dà

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yan1 siu2 sat1 daai6

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