虽败犹荣 — Chinese idiom
虽败犹荣
suī bài yóu róng
Traditional: 雖敗猶榮
Meaning
- honorable even in defeat
Character by character
- 虽suīalthough, even though
- 败bàifailure; to decline, to fail, to suffer defeat
- 犹yóusimilar to, just like, as
- 荣róngglory, honor; to flourish, to prosper
Idioms sharing a character
- 虽死犹生 suī sǐ yóu shēng
- 一败涂地 yī bài tú dì
- 不败之地 bù bài zhī dì
- 伤风败俗 shāng fēng bài sú
- 两败俱伤 liǎng bài jù shāng
- 功败垂成 gōng bài chuí chéng
- 反败为胜 fǎn bài wéi shèng
- 坐观成败 zuò guān chéng bài
- 屡战屡败 lǚ zhàn lǚ bài
- 屡败屡战 lǚ bài lǚ zhàn
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