命途多舛

Chinese

		life; fate	way; route; road	many; much; a lot of many; much; a lot of; numerous; multi-	mistaken; erroneous; contradictory
trad. (命途多舛)		命	途	多	舛
simp. ^#(命途多舛)		命	途	多	舛

Etymology

From Tengwang Ge Xu by 王勃 (Wang Bo):

嗟乎！時運不齊，命途多舛。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]

嗟乎！时运不齐，命途多舛。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

From: 7th century, 王勃 (Wang Bo), s:滕王閣序

Jiēhū! Shíyùnbùqí, mìngtúduōchuǎn. [Pinyin]

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Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): mìngtúduōchuǎn

(Zhuyin): ㄇㄧㄥˋ ㄊㄨˊ ㄉㄨㄛㄔㄨㄢˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): ming⁶ tou⁴ do¹ cyun²

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: mìngtúduōchuǎn
  - Zhuyin: ㄇㄧㄥˋ ㄊㄨˊ ㄉㄨㄛㄔㄨㄢˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: mìngtúduochuǎn
  - Wade–Giles: ming⁴-tʻu²-to¹-chʻuan³
  - Yale: mìng-tú-dwō-chwǎn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: minqtwuduochoan
  - Palladius: минтудочуань (mintudočuanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /miŋ⁵¹ tʰu³⁵ tu̯ɔ⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰu̯än²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: ming⁶ tou⁴ do¹ cyun²
  - Yale: mihng tòuh dō chyún
  - Cantonese Pinyin: ming⁶ tou⁴ do¹ tsyn²
  - Guangdong Romanization: ming⁶ tou⁴ do¹ qun²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɪŋ²² tʰou̯²¹ tɔː⁵⁵ t͡ʃʰyːn³⁵/

Idiom

命途多舛

to suffer many setbacks in life

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