因败为成

因败为成 in English

yīn bài wéi chéng: (idiom) To turn failure into success by making use of favorable circumstances arising from a setback.

Character breakdown

因 yīn cause
败敗 bài to defeat
为爲 wèi because of
成 chéng to succeed

Stroke order

Le caractère 因 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 因

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

Le caractère 败 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 败

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

Le caractère 为 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 为

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

Le caractère 成 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 成

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

How it used to be written

因

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 15 forms

败

These are the forms of 敗, the traditional character: 败 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 17 forms

成

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 18 forms

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

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