Daily Chinese Idiom Puzzle Game
来之不易 (lái zhī bù yì)
Something is not easy to come by; earned through hard work or rare opportunity.
Literal: come (lái) + it (zhī) + not (bù) + easy (yì)
She won the scholarship, which was hard-earned and来之不易.
This idiom describes something valuable that required great effort to obtain.
It contains a character meaning 'come' and another meaning 'easy'.
The idiom 来之不易 (lái zhī bù yì) is a widely-used Chinese expression meaning Something is not easy to come by; earned through hard work or rare opportunity.. Literally, each character means: come (lái) + it (zhī) + not (bù) + easy (yì).
Learning Chinese idioms (成语, chéngyǔ) is one of the most effective ways to improve your Chinese. Each four-character idiom packs centuries of culture and wisdom into a compact phrase.
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