| 命 |
mìng tú kǎn kě | to have a tough life / to meet much adversity in one's life |
| 命 |
mìng | life / fate / order or command / to assign a name, title etc |
| 命 |
mìng tú | the course of one's life / one's fate |
| 途 |
tú | way / route / road |
| 坎 |
kǎn | pit / threshold / one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦, symbolizing water / ☵ |
| 坎 |
kǎn | old variant of 坎 / pit / hole |
| 坎 |
kǎn kě | (of a road) bumpy; (of life) rough; to be down on one's luck; to be full of frustrations and dashed hopes |
| 坷 |
kē | used in 坷垃 |
| 坷 |
kě | used in 坎坷 |