| 坎坷多舛 |
kǎn kě duō chuǎn |
full of trouble and misfortune (usu. referring to someone's life) |
| 坎 |
kǎn |
pit / threshold / one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦, symbolizing water / ☵ |
| 坎 |
kǎn |
old variant of 坎 / pit / hole |
| 坎坷 |
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 |
| 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- |
| 多舛 |
duō chuǎn |
full of trouble and misfortune (usu. referring to sb's life) |
| 舛 |
chuǎn |
mistaken / erroneous / contradictory |