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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
得不偿失 is pronounced débùchángshī and means “ไม่คุ้มค่า; ได้รับผลเสียมากกว่าผลดี”. 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.