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 「欲益反弊」, explained below.
This time, our spotlight is on the idiom 「欲益反弊」. Its meaning and how it’s applied are described below.
It means that what you want to gain actually causes loss. Trying to do things well, ended up messing things up.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yù yì fǎn bì
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yuk6 yik1 faan2 bai6
The collection of Chinese idioms is enormous, with each one holding its own meaning and purpose. We hope these resources can assist you in better understanding and learning Chinese.
