"Unlucky" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 晦气 | huì qì | bad luck / unlucky / calamitous / wretched |   |
| 丧气 | sàng qi | unlucky | |
| 背运 | bèi yùn | bad luck / unlucky | |
| 背 |  bèi | the back of a body or object / to turn one's back / to hide something from / to learn by heart / to recite from memory / unlucky (slang) / hard of hearing | |
| 生不逢时 | shēng bù féng shí | born at the wrong time (idiom) / unlucky (esp. to complain about one's fate) / born under an unlucky star / ahead of his time | |
| 不吉 | bù jí | unlucky / inauspicious / ominous | |
| 倒灶 | dǎo zào | to fall (from power) / in decline / unlucky | |
| 薄命 | bó mìng | to be born under an unlucky star (usu. of women) / to be born unlucky | |
| 流年不利 | liú nián bù lì | the year's horoscope augurs ill (idiom) / an unlucky year | |
| 星象恶曜 | xīng xiàng è yào | unlucky star (evil portent in astrology) | |
| 逆运 | nì yùn | bad luck / unlucky fate | |
| 鬼扯脚 | guǐ chě jiǎo | lit. ghost pulls your leg / involuntary tug of muscles / fig. very unlucky / fig. argumentative / fig. can't help doing it | |
| 命薄 | mìng bó | to be unlucky | |
| 撞鬼 | zhuàng guǐ | to encounter a ghost or supernatural being / (coll.) to experience sth strange, eerie or unlucky | |
