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得不偿失
dé​bù​cháng​shī HSK7

more loss than gain

Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
得不偿失 (得不償失) dé​bù​cháng​shī
more loss than gain idiom
the gains do not make up for the losses

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.300 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
2.05 per million

Details

HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7

Sources

Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
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