공칠과삼

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Korean

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Etymology

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Sino-Korean word from (merit) + (seven) + (fault) + (three), adapted from Deng Xiaoping's famous statement that Mao Zedong had done seventy percent well and thirty percent badly.

Pronunciation

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Romanizations
Revised Romanization?gongchilgwasam
Revised Romanization (translit.)?gongchilgwasam
McCune–Reischauer?kongch'ilgwasam
Yale Romanization?kongchil.kwasam

Noun

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공칠과삼 (gongchilgwasam) (hanja 功七過三)

  1. (four-character idiom from Classical Chinese) more good than bad; overall beneficial, despite serious flaws