命途多舛

Chinese

		life; fate	way; route; road	many; much; a lot of many; much; a lot of; numerous; multi-	mistaken; erroneous; contradictory
trad. (命途多舛)		命	途	多	舛
simp. #(命途多舛)		命	途	多	舛

Etymology

From Tengwang Ge Xu by 王勃 (Wang Bo):

嗟乎！時運不齊，命途多舛。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]

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嗟乎！时运不齐，命途多舛。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

From: 7th century, 王勃 (Wang Bo), s:滕王閣序

Jiēhū! Shíyùnbùqí, mìngtúduōchuǎn. [Pinyin]

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Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): mìngtúduōchuǎn

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄧㄥˋ ㄊㄨˊ ㄉㄨㄛ ㄔㄨㄢˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ming⁶ tou⁴ do¹ cyun²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: mìngtúduōchuǎn
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄧㄥˋ ㄊㄨˊ ㄉㄨㄛ ㄔㄨㄢˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: mìngtúduochuǎn
    • Wade–Giles: ming⁴-tʻu²-to¹-chʻuan³
    • Yale: mìng-tú-dwō-chwǎn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: minqtwuduochoan
    • Palladius: минтудочуань (mintudočuanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /miŋ⁵¹ tʰu³⁵ tu̯ɔ⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰu̯än²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: ming⁶ tou⁴ do¹ cyun²
    • Yale: mihng tòuh dō chyún
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ming⁶ tou⁴ do¹ tsyn²
    • Guangdong Romanization: ming⁶ tou⁴ do¹ qun²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɪŋ²² tʰou̯²¹ tɔː⁵⁵ t͡sʰyːn³⁵/

Idiom

命途多舛

1. to suffer many setbacks in life