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倒霉

dǎo méi

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

倒霉 (dǎo méi) means "to have bad luck; to be out of luck". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

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

Where 倒霉 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Haste, Urgency & Surprise (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read dǎo méi correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.