吃 亏

chīkuī

“To suffer losses” in Chinese is 吃亏 (chīkuī).

Meaning

to suffer losses
to come to grief
to lose out

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to get the worst of it
to be at a disadvantage
unfortunately

Example

我天天在这里做买卖，不会让你吃亏的！

Example sentence from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0).

Characters

chīHSK 16 strokesto eat; to consume kuīHSK 53 strokesto lose (money); to have a deficit

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