百战不殆 / 百戰不殆

bǎi​zhàn​bù​dài

to win every battle

to emerge victorious from every fight; to come through a hundred battles unscathed. This idiom originally comes from the [[孙子兵法|孫子兵法|sun1 zi3 bing1 fa3]] and is often preceded by the phrase [[知己知彼|知己知彼|zhi1 ji3 zhi1 bi3]]

bǎi​zhàn​bú​dài

百 (literal) → 百 · bǎi · numerous 战 (literal) → 战/戰 · zhàn · war 不 (literal) → 不 · bù · not 殆 (literal) → 殆 · dài · dangerous

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

created sense May 20, 2026, 07:57 PM