兵败如山倒 bīng bài rú shān dǎo

utter military defeat; total collapse

Word data

HSK Not in HSK
Frequency Unknown

Definitions

  1. 1. troops in defeat like a landslide (idiom); a beaten army in total collapse

Characters

Character Meaning
兵 bīng HSK 5
soldiers; military; weapons
败 bài HSK 4
to fail; to lose (to an opponent); to defeat
如 rú HSK 3
as; such as; as if
山 shān HSK 3
mountain; hill; anything that resembles a mountain
倒 dǎo HSK 4
to pour; however; contrary to expectation