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baakˍ₆fai˗₃
(白费)
Pinyin
bai2 fei4
Translations
noun
to be in vain; to go down the drain; to go to waste
baakˍ₆fai˗₃samˉ¹geiˉ¹
(白费心机)
Pinyin
bai2 fei4 xin1 ji1
Translations
noun
racks one's brain for nothing; painstaking care gone to waste
noun
waste of effort or hardship (idiom)
baakˍ₆fai˗₃likˍ₆hei˗₃
(白费力气)
Pinyin
bai2 fei4 li4 qi5
Translations
noun
go to naught; labor in vain
noun
(proverb) to waste someone's energy; all the labor or manpower's work is in vain