失敗是成功之母

Failure is the mother of success.

to lose / to miss / to fail

to be defeated / to lose / to fail (e.g. experiments) / failure / defeat / CL:次[ci4]

to defeat / to damage / to lose (to an opponent) / to fail / to wither

variant of 是[shi4] / (used in given names)

to be (followed by substantives only) / correct; right; true / (respectful acknowledgement of a command) very well / (adverb for emphatic assertion)

surname Cheng

to succeed / to finish / to complete / to accomplish / to become / to turn into / to be all right / OK! / one tenth

Chenggong or Chengkung town in Taitung County 臺東縣|台东县[Tai2 dong1 Xian4], southeast Taiwan

success / to succeed / CL:次[ci4],個|个[ge4]

meritorious deed or service / achievement / result / service / accomplishment / work (physics)

(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的[de5]) / him / her / it

mother / elderly female relative / origin / source / (of animals) female