pǐ​jí​shēng​tài

extreme misfortune leads to peace

  1. bad
    (bound form) evil; bad; wicked; to be clogged or blocked, often used in the idiom 否极泰来 pǐ​jí​tài​lái
  2. adjective
    to reach the limit
    (bound form) to reach the highest point; to exhaust or use to the full
  3. to give rise to
    to give rise to; to happen; to cause; to generate
  4. hexagram Tai
    the eleventh of the sixty-four hexagrams in the 易经 yì​jīng, representing peace and prosperity