Chinese symbol for “calamitous”
晦气
huì qì
Traditional: 晦氣
bad luck; unlucky; calamitous; wretched
The closest CC-CEDICT match for calamitous is 晦气 (huì qì), defined as: bad luck; unlucky; calamitous; wretched.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 晦气.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 隐晦 (隱晦) | yǐn huì | vague; ambiguous |
| 晦涩 (晦澀) | huì sè | difficult to understand; cryptic |
| 韬光养晦 (韜光養晦) | tāo guāng yǎng huì | to conceal one's strengths and bide one's time (idiom); to hide one's light under a bushel |
| 晦暗 | huì àn | dark and gloomy |
| 阴晦 (陰晦) | yīn huì | overcast; gloomy |
| 天气 (天氣) | tiān qì | weather |
| 空气 (空氣) | kōng qì | air; atmosphere |
| 气候 (氣候) | qì hòu | (meteorology) climate; (fig.) climate; prevailing conditions (in human affairs) |
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.