Dictionary › 百胜难虑敌，三折乃良医

百胜难虑敌，三折乃良医

bǎi shèng nán lǜ dí , sān zhé nǎi liáng yī

11-character word Traditional 百勝難慮敵，三折乃良醫

What 百胜难虑敌，三折乃良医 means

1. (a line from a poem by the Tang poet Liu Yuxi {刘禹锡|Liú Yǔ xī}) one gains very little insight into one's enemy from a hundred victories, but he who breaks his arm three times will be a good doctor
2. (fig.) one learns more from one's failures than from one's successes

The characters in 百胜难虑敌，三折乃良医

• 百bǎihundred; numerous; all kinds of
• 胜shèngvictory; success; to beat
• 难nándifficult (to...); problem; difficulty
• 虑lǜto think over; to consider; anxiety
• 敌dí(bound form) enemy; (bound form) to be a match for; to rival; (bound form) to resist…
• 三sānthree; 3
• 折zhéto break; to fracture; to snap
• 乃nǎito be; thus; so
• 良liánggood; very; very much
• 医yīmedical; medicine; doctor