失敗乃成功之母
shī​bài​nǎi​chéng​gōng​zhī​mǔ

failure is the mother of success

  • created sense approved 失败乃成功之母/失敗乃成功之母 · shī​bài​nǎi​chéng​gōng​zhī​mǔ · failure is the mother of success — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    失败乃成功之母 / 失敗乃成功之母

    shī​bài​nǎi​chéng​gōng​zhī​mǔ

    failure is the mother of success

    a proverb meaning that one can learn from defeats to eventually achieve victory; failure is often a necessary precursor to success

    失败 (literal) → 失败/失敗 · shī​bài · failure 乃 (literal) → 乃 · nǎi · to be 成功 (literal) → 成功 · chéng​gōng · success 之 (literal) → 之 · zhī · [possessive] 母 (literal) → 母 · mǔ · source

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

    created sense