独孤求败
dú gū qiú bài
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Traditional: 獨孤求敗
The name of an unbeatable swordsman in Jin Yong's martial-arts novels, who longed in vain for an opponent able to defeat him. Used, often jokingly, for a person or team so strong that no rival is left.
Tên một kiếm khách vô địch trong truyện kiếm hiệp Kim Dung, cả đời mong gặp đối thủ đánh bại được mình mà không có. Thường dùng, nhiều khi với ý đùa, để chỉ người hoặc đội mạnh đến mức không còn đối thủ.
Register: informal
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 062 (2026-11-13). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ · Vietnamese cognate: Idiomer entry “độc cô cầu bại” (doc-co-cau-bai). Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
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Common questions
What does “独孤求败” mean?
The name of an unbeatable swordsman in Jin Yong's martial-arts novels, who longed in vain for an opponent able to defeat him. Used, often jokingly, for a person or team so strong that no rival is left. Literally: the lone one who seeks defeat
Is “独孤求败” formal or informal?
独孤求败 is generally informal.