Starting from characters, then words, the journey to learning Chinese leads to idioms. Our free resource teaches idioms like 「得失參半」. Explanation below.
This feature highlights the idiom 「得失參半」, with its meaning and examples shown below.
Gains and losses: gain and loss. Gain half and lose half. That is, the gains and losses are equal.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
dé shī cān bàn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
dak1 sat1 chaam1/sam1 bun3
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