成败利钝 — Chinese idiom
成败利钝
chéng bài lì dùn
Traditional: 成敗利鈍
Meaning
- succeed or fail, sharp or blunt ; advantages and disadvantages
- success and failure
- You win some, you lose some.
Character by character
- 成chéngto accomplish; to become; to complete, to finish;
- 败bàifailure; to decline, to fail, to suffer defeat
- 利lìgains, advantage, profit, merit
- 钝dùnblunt, obtuse; dull, flat; dim-witted
Idioms sharing a character
- 一事无成 yī shì wú chéng
- 一成不变 yī chéng bù biàn
- 一举成名 yī jǔ chéng míng
- 一语成谶 yī yǔ chéng chèn
- 一雨成秋 yī yǔ chéng qiū
- 三五成群 sān wǔ chéng qún
- 三人成虎 sān rén chéng hǔ
- 不成体统 bù chéng tǐ tǒng
- 出口成章 chū kǒu chéng zhāng
- 功成不居 gōng chéng bù jū
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