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Chinese
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disaster
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good fortune; happiness; luck good fortune; happiness; luck; Fujian province (abbrev.); surname
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trad. (禍福)
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禍
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福
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simp. (祸福)
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祸
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福
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anagram
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福禍/福祸
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Pronunciation
Noun
禍福
- good fortune and misfortune; good times and hard times; happiness and suffering
禍福倚伏,何常之有?豈失一死,何遽如是也!
祸福倚伏,何常之有?岂失一死,何遽如是也! - From: Taiping Yulan (Readings of the Taiping Era), 977 – 983 CE
- Huòfú yǐfú, hé cháng zhī yǒu? Qǐ shī yī sǐ, hé jù rúshì yě!
- There is no set pattern to bad and good fortune. Since we will all die one day anyway, why hasten death?
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