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Definition(s) for: 失败是成功之母

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
失败是成功之母 shī bài shì chéng gōng zhī mǔ - Failure is the mother of success.

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Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.

HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
- - - 100,732 62,325

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
shī- to lose
- to miss
- to fail
bài- to defeat
- to damage
- to lose (to an opponent)
- to fail
- to wither
shì- to be (followed by substantives only)
- correct; right; true
- (respectful acknowledgement of a command) very well
- (adverb for emphatic assertion)
shì- variant of 是[shi4]
chéng- surname Cheng
- short name for Chengdu 成都[Cheng2du1]
chéng- to succeed
- to finish
- to complete
- to accomplish
- to become
- to turn into
- to be all right
- OK!
- one tenth
gōng- meritorious deed or service
- achievement
- result
- service
- accomplishment
- work (physics)
zhī- (possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的[de5])
- him
- her
- it
- mother
- elderly female relative
- origin
- source
- (of animals) female

Other Words Containing 失败是成功之母

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Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo