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红颜薄命
hóng​yán​bó​mìng

beautiful women suffer unhappy fates

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
  1. 红颜 紅顏 hóng​yán
    beautiful woman
    (literary) a beautiful woman; a beauty
  2. 薄命 bó​mìng
    ill-fated
    to be born under an unlucky star; to be short-lived or have a hard life, historically used often to describe women