We’re happy to bring you free Chinese lessons. This series dives into idioms and proverbs, meaningful and practical. Today’s phrase is 「前功盡滅」, with its usage explained below.
In this introduction, we explore the idiom 「前功盡滅」. Its definition and ways to use it are shown below.
All the previous achievements have been lost. Same as “all previous efforts wasted”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
qián gōng jìn miè
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
chin4 gung1 jeun6 mit6
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