得不偿失 débùchángshī▶ tidak sepadan; lebih banyak masalah daripada keuntungan

Stroke order

得不偿失 is written in 31 strokes across 4 characters.

• 得 — 11 strokes
• 不 — 4 strokes
• 偿 — 11 strokes
• 失 — 5 strokes

Related words

• 不免tak terhindarkan
• 不堪tidak tahan
• 不妨sebaiknya
• 不惜tidak menyisihkan; tidak ragu
• 不愧Layak; pantas
• 不料Tanpa diduga

得不偿失 is pronounced débùchángshī and means “tidak sepadan; lebih banyak masalah daripada keuntungan”. You will meet it in HSK 6, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 得不偿失 out of a list long before they can reach for it unprompted, and the gap between those two closes only with repeated recall. LexiTrail schedules the next sighting from how well you did on the last.