「人衰行路打倒褪」
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Pronunciation: | jan4 seoi1 haang4 lou6 daa2 dou3 tan3 |
Individual Character Meaning: |
人 human; human being; person; people; personality; everybody; (some) people; others; somebody; body of a person 衰 bad; weak; weakening; to fail; to screw up; mean; being a jerk; rotten; terrible; poor; failed; down on luck 行 to walk; profession; behaviour; okay; a line; a row; trip; performance; action; industry; perfunctory; "hong"; a shop; a firm; to browse; to move; to adopt; to take; dry 路 road; journey; distance; way; means; sequence; line; path 打 to hit; dozen; to beat; to strike; to knock; to shoot; to compete with; to fight against; to go up against; to whisk; to inject; to load; to fill with; to tie; to knot; to "check off"; to get; to seize; to catch; to hunt; to work; to strive; to think; to concentrate; to count 倒 fall down; reverse; to reverse; to move backwards; to turn upside down; to invert; approximately; about; around; to fall; to collapse; to pour; to tip; to empty 褪 to move a bit; to delay; to postpone |
Part of Speech: | expression |
Explanation: |
very unlucky; literally: when one is unlucky, one would go backward even when walking
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See also: | 失運 倒楣 晦氣 黑 |
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