名落孙山
míng​luò​sūn​shān

to fail an exam

  • created reference approved 名落孙山/名落孫山 → 孙山/孫山 (see) — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    名落孙山 / 名落孫山 míng​luò​sūn​shān

    孙山 / 孫山 sūn​shān

    see

    Changed: source (simp), source (trad), source pinyin, target (simp), target (trad), target pinyin, type

    created reference

  • created sense approved 名落孙山/名落孫山 · míng​luò​sūn​shān · to fail an exam — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    名落孙山 / 名落孫山

    míng​luò​sūn​shān

    to fail an exam

    (idiom) to fail an exam or a competition; literally "to fall behind [[孙山|孫山|sun1 shan1]]", a scholar who came in last on the imperial exam list.

    名 (literal) → 名 · míng · name 落 (literal) → 落 · là · to lag behind 孙山 (literal) → 孙山/孫山 · sūn​shān · Sun Shan

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense