倒霉 dǎoméi▶ gặp vận rủi, gặp ngày đen đủi

Stroke order

倒霉 is written in 25 strokes across 2 characters.

• 倒 — 10 strokes
• 霉 — 15 strokes

Senses

1. to have bad luck
2. to be out of luck

Related words

• 摔倒ngã, rơi, đổ
• 倒đảo ngược
• 倒闭Sụp đổ
• 颠倒lộn ngược

倒霉 is pronounced dǎoméi and means “gặp vận rủi, gặp ngày đen đủi”. It belongs to the HSK 5 vocabulary, one of the six bands of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, China’s official Chinese proficiency exam. Recognising 倒霉 on a page and producing it in conversation are different skills, and only the second holds up when someone is waiting for an answer — so LexiTrail brings it back just as your memory of it starts to fade, not on a fixed weekly rota.