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Definition(s) for: 赔了夫人又折兵

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
赔了夫人又折兵 péi le fū rén yòu zhé bīng - lit. having given away a bride, to lose one's army on top of it (idiom)
- fig. to suffer a double loss after trying to trick the enemy

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HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
- - - 75,603 58,077

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
péi- to compensate for loss
- to indemnify
- to suffer a financial loss
le- (completed action marker)
- (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now)
- (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
liǎo- to finish
- (used with 得[de2] or 不[bu4] after a verb to express (im)possibility, as in 忘不了[wang4bu5liao3] "cannot forget")
- (literary) (usually followed by a negative such as 無|无[wu2] or 不[bu4]) completely (not); entirely (not); (not) in the least
- to understand clearly (variant of 瞭|了[liao3])
liǎo- (of eyes) bright
- clear-sighted
- to understand clearly
liào- unofficial variant of 瞭[liao4]
- husband
- man
- manual worker
- conscripted laborer (old)
- (classical) this, that
- he, she, they
- (exclamatory final particle)
- (initial particle, introduces an opinion)
rén- person; people
- CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4]
yòu- (once) again
- also
- both... and...
- and yet
- (used for emphasis) anyway
shé- to snap
- to break (a stick, a bone etc)
- (bound form) to sustain a loss (in business)
zhē- to turn sth over
- to turn upside down
- to tip sth out (of a container)
zhé- to break
- to fracture
- to snap
- to suffer loss
- to bend
- to twist
- to turn
- to change direction
- convinced
- to convert into (currency)
- discount
- rebate
- tenth (in price)
- classifier for theatrical scenes
- to fold
- accounts book
zhé- variant of 折[zhe2]
- to fold
bīng- soldiers
- a force
- an army
- weapons
- arms
- military
- warlike
- CL:個|个[ge4]

Other Words Containing 赔了夫人又折兵

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Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo