{"path":"/entry/20045","title":"名落孙山 / 名落孫山 (míng luò sūn shān) — Chinese Dictionary | Flashbao","description":"名落孙山 / 名落孫山 (míng luò sūn shān): literally to fall behind Sun Shan 孙山 Sūn Shān (who came last in the imperial examination) (idiom). Explore meanings, example sentences and vocabulary decks.","catalog":null,"deck":null,"entry":{"reading":{"id":20045,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["名落孙山"],"TRADITIONAL":["名落孫山"]}},"phonetic":"míng luò sūn shān","phoneticKey":"ming2 luo4 sun1 shan1","meanings":{"primary":[{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"literally to fall behind Sun Shan ","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null},{"kind":"REF","text":null,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["孙山"],"TRADITIONAL":["孫山"]}},"phonetic":"Sūn Shān","phoneticKey":"Sun1 Shan1","readingId":31226},{"kind":"TEXT","text":" ","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]},{"dim":true,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"(who came last in the imperial examination)","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]},{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":" ","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]},{"dim":true,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"(idiom)","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]}],"additional":[{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"figuratively to fail an exam","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]},{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"to fall behind ","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]},{"dim":true,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"(in a competition)","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]}],"notes":[],"variantMeanings":[]},"classifiers":[],"pos":["NOUN","VERB"],"frequency":74764,"grammar":[],"spokenPhonetic":null},"otherReadings":[],"examples":[],"carriedReadings":[],"constructions":[],"status":null,"due":null,"reps":null,"lapses":null,"lastReview":null,"senses":[],"origins":[{"literal":"to fall behind Sun Shan (who ranked last on the admitted candidates)","content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"A story during the Song dynasty","traditional":null}}],"examples":[{"text":{"simplified":"吴人孙山，滑稽才子也。赴举他郡，乡人托以子偕往。乡人子失意，山缀榜末。先归，乡人问其子得失，山曰：「解名尽处是孙山，贤郎更在孙山外。」","traditional":"吳人孫山，滑稽才子也。赴舉他郡，鄉人托以子偕往。鄉人子失意，山綴榜末。先歸，鄉人問其子得失，山曰：「解名盡處是孫山，賢郎更在孫山外。」"},"phonetic":"Wú rén Sūn Shān, huájī cáizǐ yě. Fù jǔ tā jùn, xiāngrén tuō yǐ zǐ xié wǎng. Xiāngrén zǐ shīyì, Shān zhuì bǎngmò. Xiān guī, xiāngrén wèn qí zǐ déshī, Shān yuē: “Jièmíng jìnchù shì Sūn Shān, xiánláng gèng zài Sūn Shān wài.”","english":"Sun Shan, a talented and humorous scholar from the Wu region, went to a different prefecture for the imperial examination. A fellow villager sent his son to go with Sun for the exam. When exam results were announced, the son of the fellow villager failed to make it in the list of successful candidates, while Sun Shan was the last name on the list. When they returned, the villager asked Sun how his son had performed, and Sun replied with a poem:\n My humble name appeared at the bottom of the list of successful candidates,\n While your dear son ranked behind me.","ref":"Song dynasty, poet Fan Gongcheng (范公偁), 《過庭錄》"}],"senseScoped":false}],"decks":[{"id":27,"sourceName":"Chengyu","name":"Chengyu"}],"vocabularyScale":null,"vocabularyLevel":null}}