七転八起 nana korobi ya oki Fall Down Seven, Get Up Eight

Fall Down Seven, Get Up Eight in Japanese is 七転八起 which is read nana korobi ya oki

七転八起 (nana korobi ya oki): fall down seven times, get up eight.

Knocked down seven times, up on the eighth: the proverb asks for one rising more than there were falls. That one extra is the whole of it. The tradition keeps two senses, side by side since the Edo period. One is resolve, the sense the self-righting daruma doll stands for: getting up once more than you are knocked down. The other is consolation, said to someone in trouble: luck turns, and bad is followed by good. Which of the two you see in the four characters is yours.

The English on this page is the proverb's modern form, in print since the 1960s. A shorter one, fall seven times, stand up eight, is now the commoner of the two.

The Japanese phrase nana korobi ya oki meaning "Fall Down Seven, Get Up Eight" is composed of the kanji 七 (read nana) meaning "seven", 転 (read korobi) meaning "to fall", 八 (read ya) meaning "eight", and 起 (read oki) meaning "to get up".

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