转败为胜

Traditional form:

轉敗為勝

Pinyin (reading):

zhuànbàiwéishèng

Definitions:

• to turn defeat into victory (idiom); snatching victory from the jaws of defeat

Characters:

• 转 - to move, to convey; to turn, to revolve, to circle; to forward mail
• 败 - failure; to decline, to fail, to suffer defeat
• 为 - to do, to act; to handle, to govern; to be
• 胜 - victory; to excel, to truimph

Traditional characters:

• 轉 - to move, to convey; to turn, to revolve, to circle; to forward mail
• 敗 - failure; to decline, to fail, to suffer defeat
• 為 - to do, to act; to handle, to govern; to be
• 勝 - victory; to excel, to truimph