红颜薄命 hóngyánbómìng beautiful women suffer unhappy fates Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 红颜 紅顏 hóngyán beautiful woman (literary) a beautiful woman; a beauty薄命 bómìng ill-fated to be born under an unlucky star; to be short-lived or have a hard life, historically used often to describe women