陰差陽錯

Chinese
 
(of weather) overcast; Yin; feminine; moon; cloudy; negative (electric.); shady
 
differ from; short of; to lack; poor; send; a messenger; a mission; to commission; uneven; difference; discrepancy; to differ; error; to err; to make a mistake
 positive (electric.); sun; male
 
mistake; error; blunder; fault; cross; uneven; wrong
trad. (陰差陽錯) 陰 差 陽 錯
simp. (阴差阳错) 阴 差 阳 错
Literally: “both yin and yang are wrong”.

Pronunciation

Idiom

陰差陽錯

  1. an accident, mistake or event arising from many different unforeseen causes; a strange combination of circumstances; accidentally; serendipitously
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