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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 前功尽弃

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
前功尽弃 qián gōng jìn qì - to waste all one's previous efforts (idiom)
- all that has been achieved goes down the drain

List Ranking:

Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.

HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
- - 18,389 43,113 38,901

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
qián- front
- forward
- ahead
- first
- top (followed by a number)
- future
- ago
- before
- BC (e.g. 前293年)
- former
- formerly
gōng- meritorious deed or service
- achievement
- result
- service
- accomplishment
- work (physics)
jǐn- to the greatest extent
- (when used before a noun of location) furthest or extreme
- to be within the limits of
- to give priority to
jìn- to use up
- to exhaust
- to end
- to finish
- to the utmost
- exhausted
- finished
- to the limit (of sth)
- all
- entirely
- to abandon
- to relinquish
- to discard
- to throw away

Other Words Containing 前功尽弃

Sorted by the 'SUBTLEX-CH' rank because that seems like the most reliable. Words without a SUBTLEX-CH rank are ignored for being too rare.

Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
前功尽弃 - - 18,389 43,113 38,901