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失败是成功之母

shī bài shì chéng gōng zhī mǔ

7-character word Traditional 失敗是成功之母

What 失败是成功之母 means

1. Failure is the mother of success.

The characters in 失败是成功之母

• 失shīto lose; to miss; to fail
• 败bàito defeat; to damage; to lose (to an opponent)
• 是shìto be (followed by substantives only); correct; right; true…
• 成chéngto succeed; to finish; to complete
• 功gōngmeritorious deed or service; achievement; result
• 之zhī(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的; him; her
• 母mǔmother; elderly female relative; origin

Example sentences

• 失败是成功之母。
  Failure is the mother of success.