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凶多吉少

xiōng duō jí shǎo

4-character word

What 凶多吉少 means

1. (lit.) everything bodes ill, no positive signs (idiom)
2. (fig.) inauspicious; everything points to disaster

The characters in 凶多吉少

• 凶xiōngterrible; fearful
• 多duōmany; much; more; a lot of; too many; in excess; (after a numeral) ... odd
• 吉jílucky; giga- (meaning billion or 10^9)
• 少shǎofew; less; to lack

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