得而復失 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 得而复失 déérfùshī ㄉㄜˊ ㄦˊ ㄈㄨˋ ㄕ to lose what one has just obtained (idiom) Character by character 得(dé)get 而(ér)and 復(fù)go and return 失(shī)lose A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0