兵败如山倒

Traditional form:

兵敗如山倒

Pinyin (reading):

bīngbàirúshāndǎo

Definitions:

• troops in defeat like a landslide (idiom); a beaten army in total collapse

Characters:

• 兵 - soldier; troops, an army; warlike
• 败 - failure; to decline, to fail, to suffer defeat
• 如 - as, as if, like, such as, supposing
• 山 - mountain, hill, peak
• 倒 - to collapse, to fall over; to lie down

Traditional characters:

• 兵 - soldier; troops, an army; warlike
• 敗 - failure; to decline, to fail, to suffer defeat
• 如 - as, as if, like, such as, supposing
• 山 - mountain, hill, peak
• 倒 - to collapse, to fall over; to lie down