| 凶多吉少 |
xiōng duō jí shǎo |
lit. everything bodes ill, no positive signs (idiom) / fig. inauspicious; everything points to disaster |
| 凶 |
xiōng |
terrible / fearful |
| 凶 |
xiōng |
vicious / fierce / ominous / inauspicious / famine / variant of 凶 |
| 多 |
duō |
many; much; more; a lot of / too many; in excess / (after a numeral) ... odd / how (to what extent) (Taiwan pr. [duo2]) / (bound form) multi-; poly- |
| 吉 |
Jí |
surname Ji / abbr. for Jilin 吉林省 |
| 吉 |
jí |
lucky / giga- (meaning billion or 10^9) |
| 少 |
shǎo |
few / less / to lack / to be missing / to stop (doing sth) / seldom |
| 少 |
shào |
young |