红颜薄命

hóng yán bó mìng

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Definitions

  1. 1. beautiful women suffer unhappy fates (idiom)

Child Words of 红颜薄命

命
mìng

life

红
hóng

red

薄
báo

thin

薄
bó

meager

薄
bò

see 薄荷[bò he]

红颜
hóng yán

a beautiful woman

薄命
bó mìng

to be born under an unlucky star (usu. of women)

颜
yán

color