Characters
- 因 (囙): old variant of 因[yin1]
- 小 (小): small; tiny; few; young
- 失 (失): to lose; to miss; to fail
- 大 (大): big; large; great; older (than another person); eldest (as in 大姐[da4 jie3]); greatly; freely; fully; (dialect) father; (dialect) uncle (father's brother)
Resources
- Wiktionary: 因小失大
- MDBG: 因小失大
- Examples with 因小失大 on Tatoeba
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