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祸不单行

huò bù dān xíng

4-character word Traditional 禍不單行

What 祸不单行 means

1. misfortune does not come singly (idiom)
2. it never rains but it pours

The characters in 祸不单行

• 祸huòdisaster; misfortune; calamity
• 不bùno; not so; (bound form) not; un-
• 单dānbill; list; form
• 行xíng(bound form) to walk; to go; to travel; (literary) trip; journey; visit…

Example sentences

• 祸不单行。
  Huò bù dānxíng.
  When it rains, it pours.
• 我谨记祸不单行。
  Wǒ jǐnjì huòbùdānxíng.
  I bear in mind that misfortunes never come singly.
• 俗话说：双喜临门；可俗话又说：福无双进，祸不单行！
  Súhuà shuō: shuāng xǐ lín mén; kě súhuà yòu shuō: fú wú shuāng jìn, huò bù dān xíng!
  There’s a saying that goes, "Fortune always comes in pairs." But there’s another saying that says, "Fortune comes, but never in pairs, while misfortune always does."