One careless move and the whole game is lost. (idiom)
trad. 一著不慎，滿盤皆輸
Also written 一著不慎，滿盤皆輸【yī zhāo bù shèn , mǎn pán jiē shū】
Characters in this word
8一
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one, single, a (article), as soon as, entire; whole; all; throughout, "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1), also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit
- Pinyin
- yī
- Strokes
- 1
- Frequency
- 158 of 2500
着
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variant of 著|着[zhao1]
- Pinyin
- zhāo
- Strokes
- 11
- Frequency
- 71 of 2500
不
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no; not so, (bound form) not; un-
- Pinyin
- bù
- Strokes
- 4
- Frequency
- 9 of 2500
慎
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careful, cautious
- Pinyin
- shèn
- Strokes
- 13
- Frequency
- 28045 of 2500
满
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Manchu ethnic group
- Pinyin
- Mǎn
- Traditional
- 滿
- Strokes
- 13
- Frequency
- 3876 of 2500
盘
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tray; plate; dish, (finance) (bound form) market prices, (computing) (bound form) disk, to coil (a rope, pigtail etc), to check; to examine; to investigate, to transfer; to sell (property), to shift; to move (sth big and heavy), classifier for things resembling a plate or dish, classifier for coils, classifier for games or matches (chess, table tennis etc)
- Pinyin
- pán
- Traditional
- 盤
- Strokes
- 11
- Frequency
- 15471 of 2500
皆
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all, each and every, in all cases
- Pinyin
- jiē
- Strokes
- 9
- Frequency
- 5113 of 2500
输
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to lose; to be beaten, (bound form) to transport, (literary) to donate; to contribute, (coll.) to enter (a password)
- Pinyin
- shū
- Traditional
- 輸
- Strokes
- 13
- Frequency
- 1908 of 2500