逢凶化吉 — Chinese idiom
逢凶化吉
féng xiōng huà jí
Meaning
- misfortune turns to blessing ; to turn an inauspicious start to good account
Character by character
- 逢féngto happen to meet; chance meeting, coincidence
- 凶xiōngculprit; murder; bad, sad
- 化huàto change, to convert, to reform; -ize
- 吉jílucky, propitious, good
Idioms sharing a character
- 千载难逢 qiān zǎi nán féng
- 左右逢源 zuǒ yòu féng yuán
- 枯木逢春 kū mù féng chūn
- 狭路相逢 xiá lù xiāng féng
- 生不逢时 shēng bù féng shí
- 绝处逢生 jué chù féng shēng
- 萍水相逢 píng shuǐ xiāng féng
- 逢场作戏 féng chǎng zuò xì
- 适逢其会 shì féng qí huì
- 凶相毕露 xiōng xiàng bì lù
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