幸灾乐祸 (幸災樂禍)
xìng zāi lè huò
Pinyin

Definition

幸灾乐祸 (幸災樂禍)
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xìng zāi lè huò
  1. lit. to take joy in calamity and delight in disaster (idiom); fig. to rejoice in other people's misfortune
  2. Schadenfreude

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

幸福
xìng fú
  1. 1 happiness
  2. 2 happy
  3. 3 blessed
不幸
bù xìng
  1. 1 misfortune
  2. 2 adversity
  3. 3 unfortunate
  4. 4 sad
  5. 5 unfortunately
  6. 6 classifier: 个 gè
幸好
xìng hǎo
  1. 1 fortunately
幸运
xìng yùn
  1. 1 fortunate
  2. 2 lucky
  3. 3 fortune
  4. 4 luck
庆幸
qìng xìng
  1. 1 to rejoice
  2. 2 to be glad

Idioms (2)

三生有幸
sān shēng yǒu xìng
  1. 1 the blessing of three lifetimes (idiom)
  2. 2 (courteous language) it's my good fortune...
幸灾乐祸
xìng zāi lè huò
  1. 1 lit. to take joy in calamity and delight in disaster (idiom); fig. to rejoice in other people's misfortune
  2. 2 Schadenfreude

Sample Sentences

幸灾乐祸
xìngzāilèhuò
to gloat at someone else's misfortune
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你别幸灾乐祸了！那边到处都是沙漠，能不黑吗！就算是古代去和亲通婚的公主们，到了那里也得变成我这么黑！
nǐ bié xìngzāilèhuò le ！nàbian dàochù dōu shì shāmò ，néng bù hēi ma ！jiùsuàn shì gǔdài qù héqīn tōnghūn de gōngzhǔ men ，dào le nà li yě děi biànchéng wǒ zhème hēi ！
Don't kick me while I'm down! It's all deserts there. Could I avoid getting darker? Even if it were ancient times and I were going with princesses, when they got there they'd be as dark as me!
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