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无功而返
wú gōng ér fǎn
What 无功而返 means
- to return without any achievement (idiom); to go home with one's tail between one's legs
The characters in 无功而返
- 无wúnot to have; no; none
- 功gōngmeritorious deed or service; achievement; result
- 而érand; as well as; and so
- 返fǎnto return (to)
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