名 名
落 落
孙 孫
山 山
- lit. to fall behind Sun Shan 孫山|孙山[Sun1 Shan1] (who came last in the imperial examination) (idiom)
- fig. to fail an exam
- to fall behind (in a competition)
Info
- Wiktionary: 名落孙山
- MDBG: 名落孙山
- Examples with 名落孙山 on Tatoeba
- Tags: chengyu