歪打正着 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 歪打正著 wāidǎzhèngzháo ㄨㄞ ㄉㄚˇ ㄓㄥˋ ㄓㄠˊ to succeed by a lucky stroke Character by character 歪(wāi)askew 打(dǎ)a semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects to form compound verbs and verb-object phrases with a diverse range of meanings 正(zhèng)straight 着(zháo)touch A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0