Learning Chinese starts simple with characters, advances to words, and peaks with idioms. Explore the free idiom 「得不償失」 here, with meaning and examples.
Here is the Chinese idiom 「得不償失」, along with its meaning and how it is used.
Compensate: be worth it. The benefits gained cannot offset the losses suffered.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
dé bù cháng shī
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
dak1 bat1 seung4 sat1
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