Learning Chinese starts with basic single characters, but the next step is combining them into words. To go even further, mastering idioms is the challenge. Here, we offer free resources to help you explore advanced Chinese idioms. Today’s idiom is 「得不償喪」, explained below.
For this session, we will be discussing the idiom 「得不償喪」. See below for its meaning and practical usage.
The benefits gained cannot offset the losses suffered. Same as “the loss outweighs the gain”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
dé bù cháng sàng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
dak1 bat1 seung4 song1/song3
There are a countless number of Chinese idioms, each with unique meanings and applications. We’ve provided these resources to help guide you as you dive deeper into learning Chinese.
