huàn dé huàn shī

患得患失 (huàn dé huàn shī) is a Chinese word meaning “to worry about personal gains and losses”.

Meanings

  1. 1to worry about personal gains and losses

Characters in 患得患失

患huàn · to suffer (from illness)得dé · to obtain患huàn · to suffer (from illness)失shī · to lose

Related words

得to obtain得used in 得瑟[de4 se5]得structural particle: used after a verb (or adjective as main verb), linking it to following phrase indicating effect, degree, possibility etc得to have to觉得to think that ...; to feel that ...记得to remember得到to get; to obtain; to receive失去to lose消失to disappear; to fade away失踪to be missing值得worth the money不得不have no choice or option but to

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