祸福无常 — Chinese idiom
祸福无常
huò fú wú cháng
Traditional: 禍福無常
Meaning
- disaster and happiness do not follow rules ; future blessings and misfortunes are unpredictable
Character by character
- 祸huòmisfortune, disaster, calamity
- 福fúhappiness, good fortune, blessings
- 无wúno, not; lacking, -less
- 常chángcommon, general, normal; always, frequently, regul
Idioms sharing a character
- 包藏祸心 bāo cáng huò xīn
- 因祸得福 yīn huò dé fú
- 天灾人祸 tiān zāi rén huò
- 嫁祸于人 jià huò yú rén
- 幸灾乐祸 xìng zāi lè huò
- 杀身之祸 shā shēn zhī huò
- 祸不单行 huò bù dān xíng
- 祸不旋踵 huò bù xuán zhǒng
- 祸国殃民 huò guó yāng mín
- 祸从口出 huò cóng kǒu chū
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