失败是成功之母 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 失敗是成功之母 shībàishìchénggōngzhīmǔ ㄕ ㄅㄞˋ ㄕˋ ㄔㄥˊ ㄍㄨㄥ ㄓ ㄇㄨˇ Failure is the mother of success. Character by character 失(shī)lose 败(bài)defeat 是(shì)be 成(chéng)surname Cheng 功(gōng)meritorious deed or service 之(zhī)(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的 de) 母(mǔ)mother A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0