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贪小失大
tān xiǎo shī dà
What 贪小失大 means
- penny wise and pound foolish (idiom)
The characters in 贪小失大
- 贪tānto have a voracious desire for; to covet; greedy
- 小xiǎosmall; tiny; few
- 失shīto lose; to miss; to fail
- 大dàbig; large; great; older (than another person); eldest (as in 大姐
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