禍福
Chinese
disaster | good fortune; happiness; luck; Fujian province (abbrev); surname | ||
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trad. (禍福) | 禍 | 福 | |
simp. (祸福) | 祸 | 福 |
Pronunciation
Noun
禍福
- good fortune and misfortune; good times and hard times; happiness and suffering
- 禍福倚伏,何常之有?豈失一死,何遽如是也! [Classical Chinese, trad.]
- From: Taiping Yulan (Readings of the Taiping Era), 977 – 983 CE
- Huòfú yǐfú, hé cháng zhī yǒu? Qǐ shī yī sǐ, hé jù rúshì yě! [Pinyin]
- There is no set pattern to bad and good fortune. Since we will all die one day anyway, why hasten death?
祸福倚伏,何常之有?岂失一死,何遽如是也! [Classical Chinese, simp.]
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