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  *福* | 福* | *福
good fortune / happiness / luck
HSK 3
fortunate; lucky / good fortune; luck
HSK 3
opportunity / favorable circumstance / stroke of luck
HSK 4
luck (good or bad)
HSK 4
too bad / how terrible / what bad luck / terrible / bad
HSK 5
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  *運* | 運* | *運
to move / to transport / to use / to apply / fortune / luck / fate
HSK 5
good luck
HSK 5
to throw caution to the wind / to press one's luck / to go for broke
HSK 7-9
bad luck / misfortune / adversity
HSK 7-9
to have bad luck / to be out of luck
HSK 7-9
mythical animal that brings luck and wards off evil, having head of a dragon and lion's body, often with hoofs, wings and tail / also written 辟邪 / fig. valiant soldier
good omen / good luck (in business etc) / profits (gained in gambling, lottery etc)
too bad / unfortunately / as luck would have it
luck (in gambling)
to forward; to transfer; to transship / to have luck turn in one's favor
(idiom) to submit to the will of heaven; to resign oneself to fate; to trust to luck
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  *祺* | 祺* | *祺
auspicious / propitious / good luck / felicity / euphoria / used for , e.g. in 旗袍, long Chinese dress
to alter one's fate / to improve one's luck (e.g. by changing one's name or phone number)
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  *儌* | 儌* | *儌
by mere luck
to be popular / to be in luck / to have good luck / to develop smoothly
ill luck / misfortune
good and bad luck (in astrology)
good luck
the first stick of incense placed in the censer (believed to bring good luck esp. during festivities) / (slang) (Tw) the first reply to a blog post etc
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  *囍* | 囍* | *囍
double happiness (similar to 喜喜) / symbol of good luck, esp. marriage
bad luck / unlucky / calamitous / wretched
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  *僥* | 僥* | *僥
by mere luck
luck with the ladies / a romance / good luck
a stroke of luck / World University Games (formerly "Universiade") (abbr. for 大學生運動會|大学生运动会)
to seek luck and avoid calamity (idiom)
to congratulate respectfully / to wish good luck and success (esp. to a superior) / with best wishes (in writing)
to try one's luck / to rely on fate
double happiness / the combined symmetric character (similar to 喜喜) as symbol of good luck, esp. marriage
(of a road) bumpy; (of life) rough; to be down on one's luck; to be full of frustrations and dashed hopes
to have good luck; to be in luck
fortune / luck / fate
luck with women
to try one's luck / to leave sth to chance
trusting to luck / wishful thinking
providential good luck / a narrow escape
good luck
just at that time / as it happens / by good luck, just then
bad luck / misfortune
to cause sth unfortunate to happen (to oneself or sb else) / to do sth inauspicious / to have a stroke of bad luck
circumstance(s) encountered in one's life (favorable or otherwise) / stroke of luck / opportunity
outdated / out of luck
by chance / by coincidence / by good luck
good luck and long life
comet / person who brings bad luck; jinx
to play yabao (a gambling game) / (fig.) to gamble on / to take one's chance / to try one's luck
our luck is in, everything is going smoothly (idiom)
great luck, great profit (idiom); everything is thriving
to have rotten luck (stronger version of 倒霉)
to have bad luck
down on one's luck; in straitened circumstances; disappointed; frustrated
luck / to create the universe / god (as the creator of all things) / the Creator
to get through by luck / to be promoted by a fluke
bad luck / unlucky fate
a moldy smell / damp and rotten / fig. rotten bad luck
to have a lucky stroke / to try one's luck
to meet with luck / to hand over for transportation / to check (one's baggage at an airport etc)
messenger of death / person bringing bad luck / Taiwan pr. [sang1 men2 xing1]
messenger of death / person bringing bad luck
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  *徼* | 徼* | *徼
by mere luck
a thousand tries leads to one success (idiom, humble expr.); Even without any notable ability on my part, I may still get it right sometimes by good luck.
(literary) to encounter setbacks; to have bad luck
misfortune; bad luck
(slang) (Tw) to bring bad luck
(astrology) Mercury retrograde (abbr. for 水星逆行); (coll.) to have a period of bad luck / (TCM) water retention in the abdomen causing the vomiting of liquids as soon as one drinks
fortune favors fools (idiom) / fool's luck
(coll.) to be out of luck
(dialect) to be out of luck
good luck charm
comet / person who brings bad luck; jinx
to increase luck and longevity
(coll.) (other people's) dumb luck
a blind cat finds a dead mouse (idiom) / blind luck
to pray for luck and sacrifice to avoid disasters (i.e. traditional superstitions)
fate / portent / luck or disasters as foretold in the stars (astrology)
bad luck
bad luck / unlucky
to experience good luck
to have luck with the ladies (idiom)
to have bad luck
(coll.) to have a stroke of bad luck
(dialect) to be out of luck


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