晦气 (晦氣)
huì qì
Pinyin

Definition

晦气 (晦氣)
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huì qì
  1. bad luck
  2. unlucky
  3. calamitous
  4. wretched

Character Decomposition

Related Words (7)

晦气
huì qì
  1. 1 bad luck
  2. 2 unlucky
  3. 3 calamitous
  4. 4 wretched
晦暗
huì àn
  1. 1 dark and gloomy
晦涩
huì sè
  1. 1 difficult to understand
  2. 2 cryptic
隐晦
yǐn huì
  1. 1 vague
  2. 2 ambiguous
  3. 3 veiled
  4. 4 obscure
韬光养晦
tāo guāng yǎng huì
  1. 1 to conceal one's strengths and bide one's time (idiom)
  2. 2 to hide one's light under a bushel

Idioms (5)

艰深晦涩
jiān shēn huì sè
  1. 1 abstruse and unfathomable (idiom)
遵时养晦
zūn shí yǎng huì
  1. 1 to bide one's time, waiting for an opportunity to stage a comeback in public life (idiom)
韬光养晦
tāo guāng yǎng huì
  1. 1 to conceal one's strengths and bide one's time (idiom)
  2. 2 to hide one's light under a bushel
风雨如晦
fēng yǔ rú huì
  1. 1 lit. wind and rain darken the sky (idiom); fig. the situation looks grim
风雨晦冥
fēng yǔ huì míng
  1. 1 conditions of extreme adversity (idiom)

Sample Sentences

哎，我最近啊，真是诸事不顺。我妈说下次要带我去龙王菩萨那儿求个签，拜个佛，好去去晦气。
ài ，wǒ zuìjìn a ，zhēnshì zhūshì bù shùn 。wǒ mā shuō xiàcì yào dài wǒ qù Lóngwáng Púsà nàr qiú ge qiān ，bài ge fó ，hǎo qùqu huìqì 。
Ai-yi-yi, nothing has been going right for me lately. My mom said she's going to take me to Long Wang temple to pray that my bad luck goes away.
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我们人嘛，凡有一技之长，就是要来帮助人，我是看姑娘你一脸晦气，所以想看看能不能帮上什么忙。
wǒmen rén ma ，fán yǒu yījìzhīcháng ，jiùshì yào lái bāngzhù rén ，wǒ shì kàn gūniang nǐ yīliǎn huìqì ，suǒyǐ xiǎng kàn kan néngbùnéng bāng shàng shénme máng 。
We all have our talents, so we should help others with them, I saw the bad luck written on your face, so I wanted to see if I could help you out with anything.
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你看，本来挺高兴的事儿，被你说得那么晦气。
nǐ kàn ，běnlái tǐng gāoxìng de shìr ，bèi nǐ shuō de nàme huìqì 。
See, at first this was a happy thing. Now you've jinxed it.
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还有日本的汽车品牌“铃木”，跟埋死人的“陵墓”同音，难怪中国人要嫌它晦气！
hái yǒu rìběn de qìchē pǐnpái “língmù ”，gēn mái sǐrén de “língmù ”tóngyīn ，nánguài zhōngguórén yào xián tā huìqì ！
Then there's the Japanese car called ``Suzuki," which sounds in Chinese like the word for a tomb where you bury the dead. No wonder Chinese people consider it unlucky!
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