败笔

Traditional form:

敗筆

Pinyin (reading):

bàibǐ

Definitions:

• a faulty stroke in calligraphy or painting
• a faulty expression in writing

Characters:

• 败 - failure; to decline, to fail, to suffer defeat
• 笔 - pen, pencil, writing brush; to compose, to write; Hanzi stroke

Traditional characters:

• 敗 - failure; to decline, to fail, to suffer defeat
• 筆 - pen, pencil, writing brush; to compose, to write; Hanzi stroke