倒霉

Pinyin
dǎoméi
English
fall on evil days
HSK level
HSK 5

倒霉 is pronounced dǎoméi and means “fall on evil days”. It is one of the words in the HSK 5 vocabulary, a level of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, China’s standardised Chinese proficiency test. Recognising a word on a page and recalling it when you need it are different skills, and only the second survives a conversation — which is why LexiTrail shows you 倒霉 again just before you would have forgotten it, rather than on a fixed schedule.

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