蟾宮折桂 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 蟾宫折桂 chángōngzhéguì ㄔㄢˊ ㄍㄨㄥ ㄓㄜˊ ㄍㄨㄟˋ lit. plucking a branch of osmanthus from the Toad Palace (i.e. the moon) fig. to succeed in the imperial examination Character by character 蟾(chán)toad 宮(gōng)surname Gong 折(zhé)break 桂(guì)surname Gui A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0