反败为胜 — Chinese idiom
反败为胜
fǎn bài wéi shèng
Traditional: 反敗為勝
Meaning
- to turn defeat into victory ; to turn the tide
Character by character
- 反fǎnreverse, opposite; contrary, anti-
- 败bàifailure; to decline, to fail, to suffer defeat
- 为wéito do, to act; to handle, to govern; to be
- 胜shèngvictory; to excel, to truimph
Idioms sharing a character
- 一反常态 yī fǎn cháng tài
- 反唇相讥 fǎn chún xiāng jī
- 反客为主 fǎn kè wéi zhǔ
- 反目成仇 fǎn mù chéng chóu
- 反脸无情 fǎn liǎn wú qíng
- 反裘负刍 fǎn qiú fù chú
- 报本反始 bào běn fǎn shǐ
- 官逼民反 guān bī mín fǎn
- 易如反掌 yì rú fǎn zhǎng
- 欲益反损 yù yì fǎn sǔn
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