倒 霉

dǎoméi

“To have bad luck” in Chinese is 倒霉 (dǎoméi).

Meaning

to have bad luck
to be out of luck

Example

我真的很倒霉！

How unlucky I am!

Example sentence from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0).

Characters

dǎoHSK 210 strokesto fall; to collapse; to lie horizontally méiHSK 7-915 strokesmold

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