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红颜薄命

hóngyánbómìng

Traditional: 紅顏薄命

beautiful women suffer unhappy fates (idiom)

Character Breakdown

红
hóng
red, vermillion; to blush, to flush; popular
HSK 2
颜
yán
face, facial appearance
HSK 2
薄
báo
thin, slight; meager, weak; poor, stingy
HSK 5
命
mìng
life; destiny, fate, luck; an order, instruction
HSK 4

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