骄兵必败

Traditional form:

驕兵必敗

Pinyin (reading):

jiāobīngbìbài

Definitions:

• lit. an arrogant army is bound to lose (idiom)
• fig. pride goes before a fall

Characters:

• 骄 - haughty, spirited; a wild stallion
• 兵 - soldier; troops, an army; warlike
• 必 - surely, certainly; must; will
• 败 - failure; to decline, to fail, to suffer defeat

Traditional characters:

• 驕 - haughty, spirited; a wild stallion
• 兵 - soldier; troops, an army; warlike
• 必 - surely, certainly; must; will
• 敗 - failure; to decline, to fail, to suffer defeat