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乐极生悲
lè​jí​shēng​bēi

joy turns to sorrow

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
乐极生悲 (樂極生悲) lè​jí​shēng​bēi
joy turns to sorrow idiom
Extreme joy turns to sorrow (idiom); a warning that things can go wrong if one celebrates too soon.

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.090 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.452 per million

Sources

Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)