红颜薄命
hóng​yán​bó​mìng

beautiful women suffer unhappy fates

  • created sense approved 红颜薄命/紅顏薄命 · hóng​yán​bó​mìng · beautiful women suffer unhappy fates — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    红颜薄命 / 紅顏薄命

    hóng​yán​bó​mìng

    beautiful women suffer unhappy fates

    (idiom) A saying used to lament that beautiful women are often destined to have a tragic life or die young.

    红颜 (literal) → 红颜/紅顏 · hóng​yán · beautiful woman 薄命 (literal) → 薄命 · bó​mìng · ill-fated

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense