Read Edit View history 名落孙山 míngluòsūnshān to fail an exam Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 名落孙山 名落孫山 míngluòsūnshān to fail an exam (idiom) to fail an exam or a competition; literally "to fall behind 孙山 sūnshān", a scholar who came in last on the imperial exam list. Frequency Movie subtitles 0.030 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.276 per million Cross-References See 孙山 sūnshānAntonym 名列前茅 mínglièqiánmáo Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
名落孙山 名落孫山 míngluòsūnshān to fail an exam (idiom) to fail an exam or a competition; literally "to fall behind 孙山 sūnshān", a scholar who came in last on the imperial exam list. Frequency Movie subtitles 0.030 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.276 per million Cross-References See 孙山 sūnshānAntonym 名列前茅 mínglièqiánmáo Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)