前功盡棄

前
前
功
功
尽
盡
弃
棄
to waste all one's previous efforts (idiom) / all that has been achieved goes down the drain

Characters and words in 前功盡棄

前
qián = qi + an2
front / forward / ahead / first / top (followed by a number) / future / ago / before / BC (e.g. 前293年) / former / formerly
前 = 䒑 + 刖 : The Queen of Hearts is smoking some weed just inside the anthill's kitchen. She's so high that she thinks the lamp in front of her is the moon which wants to stab her with a kitchen knife.
前 = 䒑 + 刖 : Mnemonic symbol: a front panel.
功
go̅ng = gu + (e)ng1
meritorious deed or service / achievement / result / service / accomplishment / work (physics)
功 = 力 + 工 : Gitta Giraffe practices her Kung Fu skills in front of the engine with a sparring robot made out of steel beams. The robot is programmed to fight Kung Fu, but Gitta Giraffe's Kung Fu is better: she hits the robots power button and turns it off.
尽
盡
jìn = ji + (e)n4
to use up / to exhaust / to end / to finish / to the utmost / exhausted / finished / to the limit (of sth) / all / entirely
尽 = ⺀ + 尺 : Someone or something is using up all the blossoms in the encampment's bathroom, each day one more is missing. Joan of Arc wants to find out when they will be used up, so each day, she measures the remaining blossoms with a tape-measure.
弃
棄
qì = qi + Ø4
to abandon / to relinquish / to discard / to throw away
弃 = 亠 + 弁 : The Queen of Hearts (qi) made a vow to not wear any hats anymore in the space station's bathroom (Ø4). She thus throws away (弃) her caps (弁) and her berets (亠) by throwing it out of the window into outer space.

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