大有裨益 (dà yǒu bì yì) — to be of great benefit, to be highly advantageous

Definition

A formal, written phrase meaning something is 'greatly beneficial', used in essays and reports rather than everyday speech. The structure is fixed: 大有裨益 takes 对 + topic (e.g., 对身体大有裨益).

verb
to be of great benefitto be highly advantageous

Examples

  • 大有裨益。
    Duō dú shū duì tí gāo xiě zuò néng lì dà yǒu bì yì.
    Reading more books is of great benefit to improving writing skills.
  • 大有裨益。
    Dìng qī duàn liàn duì shēn tǐ dà yǒu bì yì.
    Regular exercise is very beneficial to the body.
  • 大有裨益。
    Zhè cì jiāo liú huó dòng duì wǒ men shuāng fāng dōu dà yǒu bì yì.
    This exchange event is greatly beneficial to both sides.

Origin

Characters in this word

A drawing of the thing itself, worn down over three thousand years into a few strokes.

The form 大 is a picture of a person standing and facing forward, not of someone stretching their arms.

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Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
肉肉ròumeat
Sound part声符shēngfú
又
又yòu有yǒu
Same sound today

The form 有 combines 又, used for its sound, with a shape from 肉, 'meat'; the hand-holding-meat story is a folk explanation, not shown in the oldest shape.

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No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

Two or more meaningful parts placed together so that their meanings combine into a new one.

益 puts 水 (water) above 皿 (a vessel), originally showing water overflowing the vessel.

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