"Inauspicious" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 不祥 | bù xiáng | ominous / inauspicious |   |
| 凶多吉少 | xiōng duō jí shǎo | everything bodes ill, no positive signs (idiom) / inauspicious / everything points to disaster | |
| 凶 |  xiōng | vicious / fierce / ominous / inauspicious / famine / variant of 兇|凶[xiong1] | |
| 不吉 | bù jí | unlucky / inauspicious / ominous | |
| 煞气 | shà qì | baleful look / inauspicious influence / (of a tire, balloon etc) to leak air | |
| 忌日 | jì rì | anniversary of a death / inauspicious day | |
| 乌鸦嘴 | wū yā zuǐ | crow's beak / (fig.) person who makes an inauspicious remark | |
| 逢凶化吉 | féng xiōng huà jí | misfortune turns to blessing (idiom) / to turn an inauspicious start to good account | |
| 凶宅 | xiōng zhái | inauspicious abode / haunted house | |
| 凶事 | xiōng shì | fateful accident / inauspicious matter (involving death or casualties) | |
| 孤鸾年 | gū luán nián | inauspicious year for marriage | |
| 触霉头 | chù méi tóu | to cause sth unfortunate to happen (to oneself or sb else) / to do sth inauspicious / to have a stroke of bad luck | |
