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红颜薄命
紅顏薄命
hóngyánbómìng
1. beautiful women suffer unhappy fates (idiom)

Character Breakdown

红
hóng
red, vermillion; to blush, to flush; popular
HSK 2 6 丶
颜
yán
face, facial appearance
HSK 2 15 丶
薄
báo
thin, slight; meager, weak; poor, stingy
HSK 5 16 丶
命
mìng
life; destiny, fate, luck; an order, instruction
HSK 4 8 丶

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