倒霉
dǎo méi
Pinyin

Definition

倒霉
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dǎo méi
  1. to have bad luck
  2. to be out of luck

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

倒
dǎo
  1. 1 to fall
  2. 2 to collapse
  3. 3 to lie horizontally
  4. 4 to overthrow
  5. 5 to fail
  6. 6 to go bankrupt
  7. 7 to change (trains or buses)
  8. 8 to move around
  9. 9 to resell at a profit
倒霉
dǎo méi
  1. 1 to have bad luck
  2. 2 to be out of luck
一边倒
yī biān dǎo
  1. 1 to have the advantage overwhelmingly on one side
  2. 2 to support unconditionally
倒下
dǎo xià
  1. 1 to collapse
  2. 2 to topple over
倒地
dǎo dì
  1. 1 to fall to the ground

Idioms (20)

倒悬之危
dào xuán zhī wēi
  1. 1 lit. the crisis of being hanged upside down (idiom); fig. extremely critical situation
  2. 2 dire straits
倒悬之急
dào xuán zhī jí
  1. 1 lit. the crisis of being hanged upside down (idiom); fig. extremely critical situation
  2. 2 dire straits
倒悬之苦
dào xuán zhī kǔ
  1. 1 lit. the pain of being hanged upside down (idiom); fig. extremely critical situation
  2. 2 dire straits
倒打一耙
dào dǎ yī pá
  1. 1 lit. to strike with a muckrake (idiom), cf Pigsy 豬八戒|猪八戒 in Journey to the West 西遊記|西游记; fig. to counterattack
  2. 2 to make bogus accusations (against one's victim)
倒行逆施
dào xíng nì shī
  1. 1 to go against the tide (idiom); to do things all wrong
  2. 2 to try to turn back history
  3. 3 a perverse way of doing things

Sample Sentences

不知道啊，今年很倒霉。
bù zhīdào a ，jīnnián hěn dǎoméi 。
I have no idea. I'm in bad luck this year.
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真是狗嘴里吐不出象牙来啊，也难怪优雅的仙女儿成了前任，不过你说的美联航那事儿也确实让人大跌眼镜，空乘人员怎么能对乘客施行暴力呢？我宁可没桃花也不希望坐飞机遇到这种倒霉事儿。
zhēnshi gǒuzuǐ lǐ tǔ bù chū xiàngyá lái ā ，yě nánguài yōuyǎ de xiānnǚr chéng le qiánrèn ，bùguò nǐ shuō de Měiliánháng nà shìr yě quèshí ràng rén dà diēyǎnjìng ，kōngchéng rényuán zěnme néng duì chéngkè shīxíng bàolì ne ？wǒ nìngkě méi táohuā yě bù xīwàng zuò fēijī yùdào zhèzhǒng dǎoméi shìr 。
Tut tut, I suppose you can’t expect wise words from a scoundrel. No wonder the elegant goddess is now an ex, but the incident with United Airlines you brought up really was quite shocking. How can airline staff be violent with passengers? I’d rather have no one who likes me, than to come upon bad luck like that while flying.
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这个公关危机也实在倒霉欸！
zhège gōngguān wēijī yě shízài dǎoméi ǎi ！
The PR crisis is so unfortunate.
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今天倒霉死了。
jīntiān dǎoméi sǐ le 。
I am so unlucky today.
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今晚咱们真是倒霉啊！
jīnwǎn zánmen zhēn shì dǎoméi ā ！
We are so unlucky tonight!
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你说：“我今天很倒霉，出门踩到了狗屎。”你的朋友们看到了以后就都点赞了。
nǐ shuō ：“wǒ jīntiān hěn dǎoméi ，chūmén cǎi dào le gǒushǐ 。”nǐ de péngyoumen kàndào le yǐhòu jiù dōu diǎnzàn le 。
You say: “Today I've had really bad luck. When I went outside, I stepped in dog poo.” After your friends see it, the can all “like” it.
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别的也一样，这种人哪里都有。今天真倒霉！
bié de yě yīyàng ，zhè zhǒng rén nǎlǐ dōu yǒu 。jīntiān zhēn dǎoméi ！
The others are the same. There are people like this everywhere. Today just sucks.
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今天真倒霉，我坐错车了。
jīntiān zhēn dǎoméi ，wǒ zuò cuò chē le 。
I was really unlucky today. I took the wrong bus.
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是啊，真倒霉！
shì a ，zhēn dǎoméi ！
Yeah. Really unlucky.
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我昨天倒霉死了。
wǒ zuótiān dǎoméi sǐ le 。
I had the worst luck yesterday.
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