凶多吉少 — Chinese idiom
凶多吉少
xiōng duō jí shǎo
Meaning
- (lit.) everything bodes ill, no positive signs
- (fig.) inauspicious; everything points to disaster
Character by character
- 凶xiōngculprit; murder; bad, sad
- 多duōmuch, many, multi-; more than, over
- 吉jílucky, propitious, good
- 少shǎofew, little; less; inadequate
Idioms sharing a character
- 凶相毕露 xiōng xiàng bì lù
- 凶神恶煞 xiōng shén è shà
- 趋吉避凶 qū jí bì xiōng
- 逢凶化吉 féng xiōng huà jí
- 不遑多让 bù huáng duō ràng
- 人多势众 rén duō shì zhòng
- 以少胜多 yǐ shǎo shèng duō
- 债多不愁 zhài duō bù chóu
- 僧多粥少 sēng duō zhōu shǎo
- 博学多才 bó xué duō cái
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