禍福
Chinese
disaster | good fortune; happiness; luck good fortune; happiness; luck; Fujian province (abbrev.); surname | ||
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trad. (禍福) | 禍 | 福 | |
simp. (祸福) | 祸 | 福 | |
anagram | 福禍/福祸 |
Pronunciation
Noun
禍福
- good fortune and misfortune; good times and hard times; happiness and suffering
- 禍福倚伏,何常之有?豈失一死,何遽如是也! [Literary Chinese, trad.]
- From: Taiping Yulan (Readings of the Taiping Era), 977 – 983 CE
- Huòfú yǐfú, hé cháng zhī yǒu? Qǐ shī yī sǐ, hé jù rúshì yě! [Pinyin]
- There is no set pattern to bad and good fortune. Since we will all die one day anyway, why hasten death?
祸福倚伏,何常之有?岂失一死,何遽如是也! [Literary Chinese, simp.]
Derived terms
- 人有旦夕禍福/人有旦夕祸福
- 天有不測風雲,人有旦夕禍福/天有不测风云,人有旦夕祸福 (tiān yǒu bùcè fēngyún, rén yǒu dànxī huòfú)
- 旦夕禍福/旦夕祸福
- 禍福倚伏/祸福倚伏
- 禍福同門/祸福同门
- 禍福惟人/祸福惟人
- 禍福有命/祸福有命
- 禍福無偏/祸福无偏
- 禍福無常/祸福无常
- 禍福無門/祸福无门
- 禍福由人/祸福由人
- 禍福相倚/祸福相倚
- 禍福相生/祸福相生
- 禍福與共/祸福与共
- 禍福靡常/祸福靡常
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