Learning Chinese grows from characters to words and then idioms. We’ve created free tools to help you master idioms like 「得不補失」, explained here.
This time, we present the Chinese idiom 「得不補失」, with its definition and usage detailed below.
The benefits gained cannot offset the losses suffered. Same as “the loss outweighs the gain”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
dé bù bǔ shī
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
dak1 bat1 bou2 sat1
The vastness of Chinese idioms, with their many meanings and applications, is inspiring. We hope these resources will guide you in your language-learning adventure.
