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命运 mìng yùn fate; destiny / CL:個|个[ge4]
yùn to move / to transport / to use / to apply / fortune / luck / fate
mìng life / fate / order or command / to assign a name, title etc
缘分 yuán fèn fate or chance that brings people together / predestined affinity or relationship / (Budd.) destiny
幸免 xìng miǎn to avoid (an unpleasant fate)
苟且 gǒu qiě perfunctory / careless / drifting along / resigned to one's fate / improper (relations) / illicit (sex)
生老病死 shēng lǎo bìng lit. to be born, to grow old, to get sick and to die (idiom) / fig. the fate of humankind (i.e. mortality)
劫数 jié shù predestined fate (Buddhism)
天数 tiān shù number of days / fate / destiny
垫背 diàn bèi to serve as a sacrificial victim / to suffer for sb else / scapegoat / to share sb's fate
姻缘 yīn yuán a marriage predestined by fate
yuán cause / reason / karma / fate / predestined affinity / margin / hem / edge / along
星宿 xīng xiù constellation (arch., now 星座) / one of the 28 constellations of traditional Chinese astronomy and astrology / motion of stars since one's birth (predetermining one's fate in astrology)
天机 tiān mystery known only to heaven (archaic) / inscrutable twist of fate / fig. top secret
命理 mìng the traditional Chinese study of fate and fortune, using methods such as birth-date analysis, physiognomy, name analysis, feng shui etc; fortune-telling based on these methods
天命 Tiān mìng Mandate of Heaven / destiny / fate / one's life span
苦命 mìng hard lot / bitter fate / unfortunate
死活 huó life or death / fate / no matter what / anyway / for the life of me
坐以待毙 zuò dài to sit and wait for death (idiom); resigned to one's fate
命途 mìng the course of one's life / one's fate
齐人之福 rén zhī lit. the happy fate of the man from Qi (who had a wife and a concubine) (idiom) / fig. (ironically) the joy of having several partners / the life of a pasha
魁星 Kuí xīng stars of the Big Dipper that constitute the rectangular body of the dipper / Kuixing, Daoist God of fate
听天由命 tīng tiān yóu mìng (idiom) to submit to the will of heaven; to resign oneself to fate; to trust to luck
生不逢时 shēng féng shí born at the wrong time (idiom); unlucky (esp. to complain about one's fate) / born under an unlucky star / ahead of his time
运道 yùn dao fortune / luck / fate


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