顾小失大 顧小失大
顾小失大顧小失大 in English
- (idiom) To lose a major benefit in pursuit of a minor gain. The expression criticizes short-sightedness.
Stroke order
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How it used to be written
顾
These are the forms of 顧, the traditional character: 顾 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 西周早期 -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 11 forms
小
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 11 forms
失
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Bronze script 商代晚期或西周早期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 13 forms
大
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 16 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).