禍福
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Chinese[edit]
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[edit]
Noun[edit]
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.]