勝者王侯敗者寇

sing3 ze2 wong4 hau4 baai6 ze2 kau3

the winners become princes and marquises; the losers are vilified as bandits (idiom) · history is written by the victors

2 Written Forms

Meanings

  1. the winners become princes and marquises; the losers are vilified as bandits (idiom)
  2. history is written by the victors

Written Forms

勝者王侯敗者寇Traditional · Main Form
胜者王侯败者寇Alternate Form

CC-Canto and the CC-CEDICT Cantonese readings are copyright (c) 2015-17 Pleco Software Incorporated, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. CC-CEDICT is copyright its maintainers, with portions from the original CEDICT database copyright (c) 1997, 1998 Paul Andrew Denisowski, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.

Filtered, regrouped by canonical lemma, and reformatted as an immutable web projection. Source gloss text is not rewritten.

View Source CC BY-SA 3.0