事倍功半 Save Create a free account to save words shìbèigōngbàn ㄕˋ ㄅㄟˋ ㄍㄨㄥ ㄅㄢˋ 男 女 to expend twice the effort for half the result idiom Character by character 事(shì)matter 倍(bèi)-fold 功(gōng)result 半(bàn)half Sign up for a free account to save words and review them A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0