名落孙山 míngluò Sūn Shān fail exam Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 名落孙山 (名落孫山) míngluò Sūn Shān fail exam idiom to fail an examination (derived from the story of falling behind Sun Shan, the person who came last on the list of successful candidates) fall behind idiom to be unsuccessful, eliminated, or lose out in a competition or selection process Frequency Movie subtitles 0.030 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.276 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
名落孙山 (名落孫山) míngluò Sūn Shān fail exam idiom to fail an examination (derived from the story of falling behind Sun Shan, the person who came last on the list of successful candidates) fall behind idiom to be unsuccessful, eliminated, or lose out in a competition or selection process Frequency Movie subtitles 0.030 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.276 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
