红颜薄命 — Chinese idiom
红颜薄命
hóng yán bó mìng
Traditional: 紅顏薄命
Meaning
- beautiful women suffer unhappy fates
Character by character
- 红hóngred, vermillion; to blush, to flush; popular
- 颜yánface, facial appearance
- 薄bóthin, slight; meager, weak; poor, stingy
- 命mìnglife; destiny, fate, luck; an order, instruction
Idioms sharing a character
- 一炮而红 yī pào ér hóng
- 姹紫嫣红 chà zǐ yān hóng
- 柳绿花红 liǔ lǜ huā hóng
- 灯红酒绿 dēng hóng jiǔ lǜ
- 看破红尘 kàn pò hóng chén
- 红杏出墙 hóng xìng chū qiáng
- 红男绿女 hóng nán lǜ nǚ
- 绿女红男 lǜ nǚ hóng nán
- 绿惨红愁 lǜ cǎn hóng chóu
- 脸红筋暴 liǎn hóng jīn bào
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