一本万利 — Chinese idiom
一本万利
yī běn wàn lì
Traditional: 一本萬利
Meaning
- small capital, huge profit ; to put in a little and get a lot out
Character by character
- 一yīone; a, an; alone
- 本běnroot, origin, source; basis
- 万wànten thousand; innumerable
- 利lìgains, advantage, profit, merit
Idioms sharing a character
- 一丁不识 yī dīng bù shí
- 一丘之貉 yī qiū zhī hé
- 一之为甚 yī zhī wéi shèn
- 一干二净 yī gān èr jìng
- 一了百了 yī liǎo bǎi liǎo
- 一事无成 yī shì wú chéng
- 一五一十 yī wǔ yī shí
- 一以贯之 yī yǐ guàn zhī
- 一元复始 yī yuán fù shǐ
- 一刀两断 yī dāo liǎng duàn
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