伤敌一千，自损八百

Chinese

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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