"unlucky" Chinese-English Dictionary

Chinese	Pinyin	Translation	Actions
背	bèi	the back of a body or object / to turn one's back / to hide something from / to learn by heart / to recite from memory / unlucky (slang) / hard of hearing	syn
晦气晦氣	huì qì	bad luck / unlucky / calamitous / wretched	syn
丧气喪氣	sàng qi	unlucky	syn
背运背運	bèi yùn	bad luck / unlucky	syn
生不逢时生不逢時	shēng bù féng shí	born at the wrong time (idiom) / unlucky (esp. to complain about one's fate) / born under an unlucky star / ahead of his time	syn
不吉	bù jí	unlucky / inauspicious / ominous
倒灶	dǎo zào	to fall (from power) / in decline / unlucky

Chinese	Pinyin	Translation	Actions
薄命	bó mìng	to be born under an unlucky star (usu. of women) / to be born unlucky	syn
流年不利	liú nián bù lì	the year's horoscope augurs ill (idiom) / an unlucky year
星象恶曜星象惡曜	xīng xiàng è yào	unlucky star (evil portent in astrology)
逆运逆運	nì yùn	bad luck / unlucky fate
鬼扯脚鬼扯腳	guǐ chě jiǎo	lit. ghost pulls your leg / involuntary tug of muscles / fig. very unlucky / fig. argumentative / fig. can't help doing it
命薄	mìng bó	to be unlucky
撞鬼	zhuàng guǐ	to encounter a ghost or supernatural being / (coll.) to experience sth strange, eerie or unlucky

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