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穷达有命
qióng​dá​yǒu​mìng

failure or success is fated

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
  1. 穷达 窮達 qióng​dá
    failure and success
    (literary) failure and success; poverty and prosperity; the vicissitudes of one's career or life path
  2. 有命 yǒu​mìng
    predestined
    Referring to one's fate or destiny as being predetermined, as in the expression 死生有命,富贵在天 sǐ​shēng​yǒu​mìng​fù​guì​zài​tiān