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倒霉

dǎo méi

HSK 5 2-character word

What 倒霉 means

1. to have bad luck
2. to be out of luck

The characters in 倒霉

• 倒dǎoto fall; to collapse; to lie horizontally; to fail; to go bankrupt; to overthrow
• 霉méimold; mildew; to become moldy

Example sentences

• 他倒霉极了。
  Tā dǎoméi jíle.
  He is shit out of luck.
• 他倒霉透了。
  Tā dǎoméi tòu le.
  He is shit out of luck.
• 我真的很倒霉！
  Wǒ zhēn de hěn dǎoméi!
  I really am unlucky!

Words starting with 倒霉

• 倒霉蛋dǎo méi dàn(colloquial) poor devil; unfortunate man
• 倒霉蛋儿dǎo méi dàn rerhua variant of 倒霉蛋

Sounds the same

Read dǎo méi, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 倒楣variant of 倒霉