For pronunciation and definitions of 伤敌一千,自损八百 – see 傷敵一千,自損八百 (“To injure one thousand enemy soldiers while one loses eight hundred soldiers; to inflict damage on the enemy while one's own side suffers a smaller but comparable level of damage; cut off one's nose to spite one's face”). (This term is the simplified form of 傷敵一千,自損八百). |
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