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一着不慎，满盘皆输

yī zhāo bù shèn , mǎn pán jiē shūdictionary entry
DEFINITION CC-CEDICT
One careless move and the whole game is lost. (idiom)
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Reference definitions: CC-CEDICT contributors and MDBG, CC BY-SA 4.0. Source release 2026-10-27T01:55:52Z. Imported 2026-10-27. Definition wording and meaning order are retained. Recognized pronunciation references are displayed with tone marks; the original source record is available below.

Source record: cd-0c3941f50d891062. Source SHA-256: bbc4b27f26bee1a262f4d7939667a040c7857c7fc0200a2fa7a86d3352a09eae.

Original source entry:

一著不慎，滿盤皆輸 一着不慎，满盘皆输 [yi1 zhao1 bu4 shen4 , man3 pan2 jie1 shu1] /One careless move and the whole game is lost. (idiom)/

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Other forms in these source records: 一著不慎，滿盤皆輸

  • 一
    yī

    one / single / a (article) / as soon as / entire / whole / all / throughout / "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1) / also pr. [yāo] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit

  • 着
    zhāo

    a move in chess (Taiwan pr. [zhuó]) / trick / tactic / (dialect) okay / all right / (dialect) to put in / to add

    zháo

    to touch / to come in contact with / to feel / to be affected by / to catch fire / to burn / (coll.) to fall asleep / (after a verb) hitting the mark / succeeding in

    zhe

    aspect particle indicating action in progress or ongoing state

    zhuó

    to wear (clothes) / to contact / to use / to apply

  • 不
    bù

    no / not so / (bound form) not / un-

  • 慎
    shèn

    careful / cautious

  • 满
    mǎn

    to fill / full / filled / packed / fully / completely / quite / to reach the limit / to satisfy / satisfied / contented

    Mǎn

    Manchu ethnic group

  • 盘
    pán

    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)

  • 皆
    jiē

    all / each and every / in all cases

  • 输
    shū

    to lose / to be beaten / (bound form) to transport / (literary) to donate / to contribute / (coll.) to enter (a password)

Reference definitions from CC-CEDICT.