"勤有功,戲無益" meaning in Chinese

See 勤有功,戲無益 in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proverb

IPA: /t͡ɕʰin³⁵ joʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ kʊŋ⁵⁵ ɕi⁵¹ u³⁵ i⁵¹/ [Mandarin, Standard-Chinese, Sinological-IPA], /kʰɐn²¹ jɐu̯¹³ kʊŋ⁵⁵ hei̯³³ mou̯²¹ jɪk̚⁵/ [Cantonese, Guangzhou, Sinological-IPA] Forms: 勤有功,戏无益 [Simplified-Chinese]
Etymology: From the Three Character Classic Head templates: {{head|zh|proverb}} 勤有功,戲無益
  1. diligence has its reward while play has no benefit Wikipedia link: Three Character Classic
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Chinese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-08-18 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-08-02 using wiktextract (0c45963 and 3c020d2). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.