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凶多吉少
xiōng duō jí shǎo
What 凶多吉少 means
- (lit.) everything bodes ill, no positive signs (idiom)
- (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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